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Barnabas’s
average rating for
2024
3.8
3.8
Kruegers storytelling style/genre is hard to describe. He writes mysteries, adventure stories, coming of age stories, family drama, and nostalgic place-centered tales all wrapped into one. This one leans more mystery than his previous two stand-alone novels but doesn’t suffer in the slightest for it. It is gripping, heart warming, moving, and beautifully crafted.
Simply brilliant. I’ve known of Dorothy Sayers for a long time simply because she ran in the same circles as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and was influenced greatly by G.K. Chesterton, all of whom I adore. However, I did not know her on her own writing merits. And meritorious she is. In reading Letters to a Diminished Church I have been properly gobsmacked by Sayers’ incisive, sharp, eloquent prose and the depth and clarity of her thinking. Even
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