BOOK REVIEW: CRADLE AND ALL (JAMES PATTERSON)
June 29th, 2007 Posted in BooksThis book is all about religion and babies.
There are two girls, both virgins and both pregnant. Nobody believes that they are still virgins, despite their protests, except for religious leaders in the church who have had to give events their full attention.
An ancient mythological story about the devil and the Lord being reincarnated keeps cropping up and when people near the pregnant children hear voices commanding them to do things, when birds divebomb people taunting the children, when people go crazy around them, it appears that something supernatural is occuring.
But which one is which? Which child is going to give birth to the devil and which one is going to give birth to the Lord? And what should Anne Fitzgerald, a private detective and also a virgin, do when the children are born? How are she and the religious leaders going to know which one is which? Will one be red with a tail and pointy teeth?
It is a slightly confusing read, with two very similar events happening concurrently, but an intriguing and worthwhile one at that. And I particularly like the ending.
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