{"id":3072,"date":"2013-08-29T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2013\/08\/29\/review-the-unholy\/"},"modified":"2013-08-29T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:00:05","slug":"review-the-unholy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=3072","title":{"rendered":"review-the-unholy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18206781%22\" style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px&quot;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/%22http:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1374001528m\/18206781.jpg%22\" border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;The Unholy&quot; \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18206781%22\">The Unholy<\/a> by <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1316046%22\">Paul Deblassie<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/705429453%22\">1 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      Let me see.  Where to start?<\/p>\n<p>Claire Sanchez is the daughter of a curandera she saw murdered at 5 years old.  She grows up knowing that she&#8217;s destined to be a curandera herself, but chooses instead to avoid her heritage and live out life as a natural healer instead.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an evil religion extorting money from it&#8217;s wealthy parishioners and sacrificing women.  And it&#8217;s not really difficult to guess how it ends.<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to care.  I really wanted to like this novel with the beautiful descriptions and snapshot view of the mestizo culture.  But in all honesty, this book was a mess. I mean how many times does the author have to explain the history behind the women of Lozen?  Three times in the first 75 pages, word for word.  <\/p>\n<p>Characters were one-dimensional.  Plot-lines were predictable.  I kept expecting the villain to suddenly shout, &quot;Bwah ha ha,&quot; like you see in the cheesy Saturday morning cartoons.  It was that bad.<\/p>\n<p>I received a free copy for review and I don&#8217;t recommend it.  Unless there&#8217;s some kind of drinking game involved.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe not even that. <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/705429453%22\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unholy by Paul Deblassie My rating: 1 of 5 stars Let me see. Where to start? Claire Sanchez is the daughter of a curandera she saw murdered at 5 years old. She grows up knowing that she&#8217;s destined to be a curandera herself, but chooses instead to avoid her heritage and live out life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}