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Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Review: This is a novel about a love story and a hoped-for war of liberation. The oddity is that neither happens. The beginning and end are separated by hundreds of pages of christian drivel.Alas and alack there is no rescue from characterization. The author begins with a bright, curious, sensual young woman who 'adopts' a religious vocation as an escape from an unwanted marriage. The entire book evolves around her vocation, unbelievable though it is from the 'get-go', and how she 'chooses' it over the love of her life (a taste of which we are given in a very few pages at the end of the book).Our hero is more sympathetic yet more inept. He is unable to land the heroine, find someone else, or initiate his lifelong goal to liberate his country from invaders.One is left to ponder what Mr. Bragg had in mind.
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