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Depressing. And only appealing to a narrow audience: 30-something females who grew-up in the Evangelical subculture of the U.S. Instead of a coming-of-age story, you get a self-centred character who should have sought professional counselling a decade ago. It reads like the predictable conversion story of an apostate Evangelical towards Liberalism. The overt pessimism of this selfish introvert is difficult to empathize with. She does nothing to help herself and blames the church for debilitating insecurities. Also, some readers will not appreciate being thrust into the protagonist's role, as written-in as another first-person. The book not only takes awhile to get going but by 20 pages, you are thoroughly depressed already. Whether a New Evangelical or in response to current struggles of post-modernism, the author's theology is now more process-oriented, no longer defined by a particular spiritual event. While experience obviously affects faith and the application of Scripture, the author wallows more in her own self-pity. Childbirth finally forced her to grow-up and accept responsibility for her own faith/ journey/ walk. While I identify with the context (age; subculture; legalism; spiritual manipulation; unheralded paranoia; musical taste; dress code; school rules; lack of grace; clinical depression; linguistic rebellion; etc), I mildly admire her honesty, though her version of authenticity seems more trendy and salesworthy than helpful. Her redemption is more genetic than spiritual, more dependent upon psychology than God. But wow... what a husband! Although most of the religious rules espoused here do seem petty, she neglects to explore their intent. Maybe her parents should have made a rule against 14 year-olds dating adults! While all of this here may seem even less encouraging than the book itself, I was absolutely disgusted with the nonchalant way the topic of drinking and driving was addressed.Read full review
