Rating: 4* of five The Book Description: This stunning debut novel—drawn from the author's own life experience—tells the moving story of a family of eleven in the American Midwest, bound together and torn apart by their faithThe Rovaniemis and their nine children belong to a deeply traditional chur...
9 out of 10.A very good book about individual struggles with faith, why people believe what they do (or don't), and how it can affect family and those around them.When you can rattle off the names of all 9 children, as well as the two parents, and you're only halfway through the book, you know the a...
In this illuminating and sympathetic book, the eleven members of the Rovaniemi family cope with an uneasy mix of modern life and conservative religion. The nine children and their parents follow a strict form of Lutheranism (no dancing, no TV, etc.)in present day Michigan. Some embrace the faith and...
I would have liked this more if I had gone into it thinking of it as a collection of short stories. I just didn't like it as a novel.
I wanted to like this book, but it was really just too disjointed to produce much depth. Characters were dropped, plot threads went unresolved, and some of the characters blended into one another. Because of the structure of the story (each chapter was essentially a short story with a different narr...
To tell you the truth, lately I’ve felt burned out on Sad Stories. While everyone was raving this summer about Light Between Oceans, I gave it a good-but-not-great rating, and most of that was honestly due to Sad Story Burnout. I approached We Sinners with approbation. The blurb about the plot (an e...
E-galley received from Netgalley for review.We sinners, we are just lying to ourselves, we are just alone.I requested We Sinners for review on netgalley because I was fascinated with the excerpt I found on the promotional BEA ebook. It's quite an unusual book.We Sinners tells the story of the Rovani...
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