Providence Road: in the Name of Friendship / Carol Marvell

Providence Road: in the Name of Friendship

by

Carol Marvell

published by Zeus Publications in 2007
read by Agamedes in July 2009
fiction
book 2 of In the name of...

I thought, here’s an interesting -- different style of -- book: a cover picture of attractive women, computer avatar quality... White slavery, evil villains, tough heroines... It’s the second book by an Australian author. The writing is really, really... bad. “An evil smirk twisted her thin lips...” And the point of view jumps amongst any of six or more characters. Still, it was readable. But I stopped after just a few chapters. There was violence, violent rape and heroic escapes (with violence). With most of the book still to go, I could see more violence and suffering still to come. Worse yet, this is “book two” -- so even the end may turn out to be continuing suffering. All too much for me!

Agamedes' rating: 4 out of 10

Okay, it's Australian. It's still not worth buying.

Luckily enough, Amazon don't seem to stock this book. So buy Lord of the Rings instead. Or any other well written book.