![]() I hated Aiden both times, and on reread I believed him to be a serial cheater, that he's had sex with women from his congregation before. I did -not- want to be in such a world, but I had to if I wanted to finish the book. The reigning religion was coded as Evangelical Christianity, but other readers have also suggested a fundamentalist branch of Mormonism. I suspected that once again, Pagans and Wiccans had been hanged, drowned, pressed, or burned at the stake, and tortured beforehand. Reading the first twenty pages of this, I understood it to be a society that had once again murdered or tortured into conversion its Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and other populations. It had been positively compared to "Handmaid's Tale," which I wasn't able to get ahold of at the time. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was utterly absorbed in this when it first came out, and curious to read it again this year. ![]()
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