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Review of Always Before Me
[Following is a volunteer review of "Always Before Me" by John Servant.]
Always Before Be by John Servant is a Christianity novel book about a story of a humble and innocence priest, Father Paul, that been thrown to jail due to his refusal in giving cooperation about a local murder. Then come some trial and tribulation for this priest during his lockup to test his faith. It’s a story about hope, forgiveness and indivisible trust toward God in difficult time.
The story kicks off strongly within the first paragraph and maintain it overall pace. This short novel only consists of 83 pages hence a short but quite a heavy reading due to numbers of speeches and bible excerpt. John composed the words beautifully except for some early paragraph that confusing.
For the characterization, there’s no favorite as protagonist nor antagonist. The character in this novel is a simple and straightforward one with no major development. Rather than saying the author tries to portray his belief in the character, it suiting to say the author tries to give a sermon for the reader by using Father Paul’s character. Father Paul is a humble and good priest with an orthodox thinking. Unfortunately, he’s too close minded even for his own good. His strong belief makes him rather blinded and head strong. Some decision is better with some faith in worldly world rather than completely rejecting it. At the end of my reading, it actually makes me question negatively about Christianity as a whole especially about how it responds toward science and worldly topics.
Instead of calling this book as a novel, I would rather call this a compilation sermon with a gist of story. The amount of sermon and speeches that author decides to include in this novel is too overwhelm that makes me skip some paragraph. Some speeches and sermon feels too forced and doesn’t fit in the context. Author’s decision to include the bible excerpt in the middle of conversation kills some tone towards the overall story. Due to the author’s writing that focusing on the priest speeches, unfortunately some character get lost and doesn’t get the development that it sought to have. Some conversation between character feels too forced and doesn’t feel natural especially when other inmates seeks comfort in Father Paul’s word.
For the final verdict, I would give 2 out of 4 stars. Halfway thru, reading this short novel feels like a chore rather than enjoying it. There’s no noticeable mistakes and typo, so it’s a smooth reading. If you are into novel with tones of Bible reference, this might for you but for I myself will gladly trade this one for another.
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Always Before Me
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Always Before Be by John Servant is a Christianity novel book about a story of a humble and innocence priest, Father Paul, that been thrown to jail due to his refusal in giving cooperation about a local murder. Then come some trial and tribulation for this priest during his lockup to test his faith. It’s a story about hope, forgiveness and indivisible trust toward God in difficult time.
The story kicks off strongly within the first paragraph and maintain it overall pace. This short novel only consists of 83 pages hence a short but quite a heavy reading due to numbers of speeches and bible excerpt. John composed the words beautifully except for some early paragraph that confusing.
For the characterization, there’s no favorite as protagonist nor antagonist. The character in this novel is a simple and straightforward one with no major development. Rather than saying the author tries to portray his belief in the character, it suiting to say the author tries to give a sermon for the reader by using Father Paul’s character. Father Paul is a humble and good priest with an orthodox thinking. Unfortunately, he’s too close minded even for his own good. His strong belief makes him rather blinded and head strong. Some decision is better with some faith in worldly world rather than completely rejecting it. At the end of my reading, it actually makes me question negatively about Christianity as a whole especially about how it responds toward science and worldly topics.
Instead of calling this book as a novel, I would rather call this a compilation sermon with a gist of story. The amount of sermon and speeches that author decides to include in this novel is too overwhelm that makes me skip some paragraph. Some speeches and sermon feels too forced and doesn’t fit in the context. Author’s decision to include the bible excerpt in the middle of conversation kills some tone towards the overall story. Due to the author’s writing that focusing on the priest speeches, unfortunately some character get lost and doesn’t get the development that it sought to have. Some conversation between character feels too forced and doesn’t feel natural especially when other inmates seeks comfort in Father Paul’s word.
For the final verdict, I would give 2 out of 4 stars. Halfway thru, reading this short novel feels like a chore rather than enjoying it. There’s no noticeable mistakes and typo, so it’s a smooth reading. If you are into novel with tones of Bible reference, this might for you but for I myself will gladly trade this one for another.
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Always Before Me
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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