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74th out of 298 books
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Bad Faith
MURDEROUSLY SINISTER DYSTOPIAN SATIRE.
Life's easy for Cassandra. The privileged daughter of a cleric, she's been protected from the extremist gangs who enfore the One Church's will. Her boyfriend Ming is a bad influence, fo course, with infadel parents who are constantly in trouble with the religious authorities. But Cass has no intention of letting their different backgr...more
Life's easy for Cassandra. The privileged daughter of a cleric, she's been protected from the extremist gangs who enfore the One Church's will. Her boyfriend Ming is a bad influence, fo course, with infadel parents who are constantly in trouble with the religious authorities. But Cass has no intention of letting their different backgr...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
August 20th 2008
by Strident Publishing Limited
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Thank you Strident, LyzzyBee and everyone else for getting this to me: it was a great read, which I started the night I received it and finished over breakfast, making myself only a little late for work the next morning.
The tale was chillingly credible, so it was (to make use of a construction familiar from my childhood and spotted once or twice in the book). Perhaps one could argue that this poor family had more than their fair share of bad luck over the years, but few people make successful fi...more
The tale was chillingly credible, so it was (to make use of a construction familiar from my childhood and spotted once or twice in the book). Perhaps one could argue that this poor family had more than their fair share of bad luck over the years, but few people make successful fi...more
Love it! I read somewhere Philip was asked what this book was about and responded with "what happens when Sarah Palin is elected president." The book is a distopian young adult novel. It centers on a young woman on a journey of self discovery and self revelation. This book depicts three brutal murders and illustrates live with fear. The government is controlled by the elected leader, a conservative religious zealot, and her right hand man, the head of their faith. The Holy Man is missing when th...more
Bad Faith is an interesting title for a book. Before I had even started reading I was asking myself: "Can faith ever be a bad thing?" We all need to have faith in ourselves to reach our potential. We all need to have faith in the goodness of humanity. We put our faith in people everyday to achieve the smallest of things and the biggest of things. I guess my answer was No. Faith cannot be a bad thing. Now I've read Bad Faith. I guess you want to know if I believe there is such a thing as bad fait...more
An incredible book about an unidentified small nation (clearly Scotland, in fact I think I even recognised the town which was flooding at the start) now run by a fundamentalist religion – the simply named One Church, worshipping the One God. The book deals with all sorts of politics: family politics, revolutionary politics, sexual politics, religious politics… It even throws in some literary references to Macbeth and the Greek myths. But all of that makes it sound worthy. Which is isn’t. Despite...more
Bad Faith is a dystopian young adult novel. Set in a theocratic dictatorship somewhere in Europe, it follows Cassandra, the daughter of a rector in the ruling One Church. She and her boyfriend Ming discover a corpse in the woods - someone has killed the Bishop Todd, leader of the One Church. The story twists and turns, leaving Cassie, Ming and the reader guessing to the last who killed the Bishop and why.
In addition to being a great mystery, this book is a brilliant political satire, pointing ou...more
In addition to being a great mystery, this book is a brilliant political satire, pointing ou...more
How do you not love a book that starts like this:
Before I slipped on the mud and fell over the Bishop, our family didn't have a lot to do with murder.
A little, but not much.
p.1
When Cassandra literally stumbles onto the body of an important Bishop, her father's boss, she and her best friend Ming hide the body. They don't know who killed the Bishop, but they know someone in Cassandra's family is involved. Her family has been ruled by a complicated web of secrets that dates back to before her paren...more
Before I slipped on the mud and fell over the Bishop, our family didn't have a lot to do with murder.
A little, but not much.
p.1
When Cassandra literally stumbles onto the body of an important Bishop, her father's boss, she and her best friend Ming hide the body. They don't know who killed the Bishop, but they know someone in Cassandra's family is involved. Her family has been ruled by a complicated web of secrets that dates back to before her paren...more
I enjoyed this book, and as others have said the characters really stood out and were very believeable. Although I don't think the world would ever go quite as mad as the one portayed in the book, it certainly was interesting how religion and politics got all tied up, and how it was quickly turning sour and violent with the extremist gangs, and the people in authority mainly being interested in their own well being rather than that of the general public.
Delicately done and politically provocative book about faith and religion, fanaticism and freedom. really nice whodunnit at its heart, a sweet, slow love story and a compelling voice.
Dec 01, 2009
Staci
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Teen novel set in a religious dystopia.
This is a very clever murder mystery set in a future U.S.A. in which the church and state have joined forces. (Imagine the Department of Homeland Security run by televangelists. Yes, this most certainly is a dystopian novel!) This novel has wonderful characters and a thought-provoking, engaging plot. The voice of the young protagonist is one of the most engaging I've read.
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Gillian Philip is also know as Gabriella Poole, whom she wrote the Darke Academy series as.
I live in the north-east highlands of Scotland, with one husband, two children, three dogs (Cluny, Milo and Otto), two psychotic cats (the Ghost and the Darkness), a slayer hamster (Buffy), three chickens (Mapp, Lucia and Mrs Norris) and a lot of nervous fish. I have taken a solemn vow not to get any more pe...more
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I live in the north-east highlands of Scotland, with one husband, two children, three dogs (Cluny, Milo and Otto), two psychotic cats (the Ghost and the Darkness), a slayer hamster (Buffy), three chickens (Mapp, Lucia and Mrs Norris) and a lot of nervous fish. I have taken a solemn vow not to get any more pe...more
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