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Monday, March 10, 2008
The Novelist
The writer on whom The Novelist is centered is one Jordan Casey Kerrigan, a woman who has become famous and wealthy due to the tremendous success of a James Bondish adventure series that everyone calls “The Tower series.” Kerrigan has found a formula that works and she is milking it for all it is worth. Part of that formula is that, largely due to the Jordan Casey pen name she has chosen for herself and the fact that she allows no pictures of herself on her book jackets, Kerrigan is presumed by her readers to be male rather than female.
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Well dang. I bought this at a book fair several months ago after hearing good things about Angela Hunt.
ReplyDeleteIt's out of her normal genres, though, so maybe that's the problem (although it's also the reason I bought it over her other titles).
You might love it, Annie, who knows? It is definitely in the "Christian Lit" genre but its message is just too obvious and in your face for me...it all became so predictable that I had a hard time finishing it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what her "normal genre" might be...just assumed it was Christian fiction.
Actually, I just looked her up online, and all her books seem similar to this one. I must've been thinking of another author who still did Christian fiction, but it was more sci-fi oriented.
ReplyDeleteI'll still read this one, since it was recommended to me, but I'm less excited about now.
Let me know what you think about it, Annie. It's always possible that it was just the wrong time for me to read this one...but I was definitely "underwhelmed" by it.
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