- Hardcover: 460 pages
- Publisher: Independent Publishers Group; 1 edition (2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1601640021
- ISBN-13: 978-1601640024
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,354,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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*Starred Review* A priest, a professor, the professor's wife, and his mistress--it sounds like the setup for a dirty joke, but debut novelist Kenyon isn't fooling around. What begins as a riff on Peyton Place (salacious small-town intrigue) smoothly metamorphoses into a philosophical battle between science and religion. You would think that in attempting to deal with so many different themes--shady clergy, top-secret scientific research, marital infidelity, lust, love, honor, faith--Kenyon would run the risk of overwhelming readers. But, and this is why Kenyon is definitely an author to watch, she juggles all of her story's elements without dropping any of them--and, let's not forget, creates four very subtle and intriguing central characters. This is a novel quite unlike most standard commercial fare, a genre-bending story--part thriller, part literary slapdown with dialogue as the weapon of choice (think Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)--that makes us laugh, wince, and reflect all at the same time. Kenyon is definitely a keeper. David Pitt
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"A solid good read by a gifted writer." —Thom Jones, author, O. Henry Award winner and National Book Award finalist
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This is no chick lit! It's great lit!,
This review is from: Rabid (Hardcover)
I thought this was written by a chick, but maybe I'm wrong. Of the four characters, two are dudes, and they are some of the most raving dudes around, especially the priest who tomcats around like he's the baddest dude since James Dean. Leila is so hot that she makes me want to dive into this book and [...] This book has so many hot scenes, including some that I shouldn't have enjoyed but turned me on in a sick way, that I'm going to read it again. And then maybe just the dirty parts again after that.
5.0 out of 5 stars
"A crucible of characters and themes",
By Veronica Sagan, MD (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rabid (Hardcover)
I love finding a new, brilliant, genius writer. Where has TK Kenyon been hiding? This is her first novel, but it's brilliant. I'm a physician, and two of the characters in this book are MDs, and Kenyon hits the notes about being a doctor perfectly. The science, and there is a scientific metaphor that runs through the book, is true. The stuff that happens in a lab is spot on.To summarize, Dante, a gorgeous Italian Jesuit priest, arrives to investigate claims of pedophilia by another priest and to counsel the victims. Bev discovers that her husband, Conroy, is having an affair and drags him to counseling with Dante. Conroy is having an affair with Leila, his student, and Kenyon gets the tone of the university lab just right. Dante tries to counsel them, but Conroy doesn't want counseling, and the four characters spin out of control. One of the characters kills one of the others about a third of the way through the book, and then the book gets more complicated and scary and involved and crazy and fantastic. There are also parts that made me laugh so hard I had to put the book down. The dialogue, especially in the lab and during the trial, is so damn funny. When I started reading it, there were such strong, separate plot threads and round, perfect, thinking, smart characters, each with their own agenda, that I thought there was no way to adhere to E.M. Forrester's advice, "Only connect." By a third of the way through, I knew this was something really special, as the plot threads braided together and the characters struggled against each other and themselves. The end, with a trial, an exorcism, and a confrontation, is too shocking to ruin for you. I cried at the end. It was so sad and beautiful at the same time, and yet perfect. Any other end would have been wrong.
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's Robin Cook on Steroids,
By Art Tirrell - "The Vitaman Effect" (upstate ny) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rabid (Hardcover)
Rabid is one of those reads that hit the ground at full speed and pick up momentum from there. Either T.K. Kenyon doesn't care where the brake pedal is or decided not to use it and frankly, I think she's got it just about right. This is a full blown, balls-to-the-wall scorcher. Dual themes - out-of-control scientific research and pedophilia - make hot-as-the-devil premises and great platforms for the author's fascinating and often thought-provoking philosophical tirades. Whether science or religion, Rabid gives no quarter. These people are flawed, even hateful. Yet, you feel their pain, their doubt, their fear. They sear their way into your subconscious and in the end you love them and root for them because they are you. If the American priesthood is infested with pedophiles, the underlying causes have never been explained better, made more exciting, or presented in a way that offers so much hope for the future. Get yourself a copy, strap yourself into your favorite chair, and find out what's really been going on behind closed doors.Also recommended: 'Bang BANG' by Lynn Hoffman, an inspiring read, and 'The Game' by Derek Armstrong, a gory page-turner thriller
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