Ceremony of Innocence
3/5
(50 votes)
Scottish Catholic journalist Catriona McClelland comes home to her Frankfurt apartment to find her German ex-boyfriend Dennis sitting nervously on the couch. Police arrive.
- Format
- 260 pages
- First published
- 2013
- Publishers
- Ignatius Press
- Language
- English
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I found this book really fascinating. It's a thriller and a page turner.
The plot is excellent and the delineation and development of the characters are worth five stars. I would have given it four and a half if that were an option, because I thought the cutting back and forth between past and present could have been handled a touch more smoothly at times, but overall it is excellentThe setting, contemporary Germany fraught with its various tensions, is brilliantly and realistically done.
The key to this novel is the miraculous medal. I have been going to the Miraculous medal Shrine in Philadelphia for 22 years and innumerable "favors" from the novena have been reported by people like myself.
In the front pages of this "novel," the author quotes a line from Graham Greene's "The Quiet American." At the end of the book, in her acknowledgements, she writes, "Fellow devotees will have perceived my debt to the work of Graham Greene's "The Quiet American.
A great read and an absorbing story. I could not put the book aside before I knew how things unravel at the end.
Ceremony of Innocence is a challenging and sometimes confrontational read that refuses to commit to simple notions of right and wrong. It is a novel of contrasts, centering on the relationship between two very different women.
A very real, fascinating story involving some of the most pressing and uncomfortable issues faced by this generation of Western Europeans. Exceptionally well written and captivating.
This thrilling novel will grip you! I couldn't put it down!
This is a fascinating story of idealism and love, reality and faith. The writing is captivating, I couldn't put it down!
This fast-paced novel makes you want to keep reading past bedtime. A whodunnit set on the backdrop of modern Western Europe, the book brings up questions of guilt, innocence, and reparation for both nations and individuals.
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This book was engaging from the start and a quick read without sacrificing good writing or complexity. I don't think the description on Amazon is exactly right, but I'm not sure what I would replace it with.
4.5.