Historical Fiction -- 1 star
Two alternating stories: #1 Father Michael Kavanaugh meets Rachel, a scholar of medieval history at The Cloisters in NYC and discusses the relationship between Christians and Jews in ancient history. #2 Peter Abelard meets Heloise in the eleventh century and discusses the relationship between Christians and Jews in biblical history. To say this book was a major disappointment would be an understatement. I expected Abelard and Heloise to be fleshed out, maybe even to become more than the almost mythical figures they are. Instead I got long paragraphs that read more like a philosophy text than a novel. The modern day story was more of the same. I finished it because I'm stubborn. Uninspiring, with dull prose, and flat characters.
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