I was also disappointed with this book. I had saved clippings and ads about it and looked forward to reading it, even lucked upon a signed copy. But this modern style is not for me. Both the premise and the setting (Christ and Mary Magdalene's love story in a Celtic world) were great, but I didn't like the execution. The author often intrudes with a narrator's voice, which works in many novels but would probably have worked better here if she had chosen one style and stuck to it. There are probably a lot of modern writers and readers who enjoy this mixture of archetypal subject and words like "piss", but I'm not one of them. Too many cuss words and not enough mythic flavor. If you are still hungry for that special work, I would suggest Evangeline Walton's retelling of the Mabinogion, perhaps. Or anything by McKillip or MacAvoy. I do still want to try reading some of Ms Cunningham's other titles, however. She's obviously got spirit.

After reading other customers reviews, I was really looking forward to this book, however, I found myself surprisingly dissappointed. The modern humor with which the author flavors 90% of the novel, mixed with the time period of centuries ago was not well executed, and came across as cheeky and immature. I found the combination didn't work for me at all. The book comes across as very superficial and impotent.

OK, who is going through and marking *all* the reviews unhelpful, over and over again? I originally figured someone hated the book and was trashing every review that lauded it--but the same thing happened to the negative reviews. Is someone just really bored?