Secrets of Eden: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian

Secrets of Eden is predictable. The storyline while interesting did not hold my attention.

It is broken down into sections and narrated by characters, which is something I like but the transitions were weak and there didn't' seem to be much of a character change.

It is an OK book but nothing in particular that screams out special or read me.


Grade: C


Synopsis
(B&N)

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.

"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, feels his faith in God slipping away and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about . . . angels.

Heather survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen -- who flees the pulpit to be with Heather and see if there is anything to be salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him.
But then the State's Attorney...