Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie lll – Review by Anna Hirsch

Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie lll
3 Stars

Magic runs rampant in the land of Atzlan del Norte. Evil resides there and has taken hold of the land and people for decades. Evil is smart, it hides in plain sight. The people of Atzlan are very religious. When you follow religion so piously sometimes you are blind to what’s directly under your nose. Gabriel de LaTierra has grown to become a psychiatric healer. He loves helping the children of the orphanage. Mother Juan de la Cruz, Superior of the Nunnery and the Orphanage is his mother. It seems they are a tag team made in heaven. She heals their physical needs and Gabriel heals them mentally. Children start disappearing without reason and Gabriel decides he will get to the bottom of it. He is blinded by his religious beliefs and his love for his mother. Will the love and guidance from his wife help Gabriel open his eyes and see the truth or will he see all he cares about perish horribly in front of him?

Mr. DeBlassie once again wrote a vividly detailed story about the dark side of religion. The story is twisted and complex. Between the nuns capabilities to hurt you just with their thoughts and Gabriel and his wife’s visions, the story was constantly jumping back and forth. I felt like I was bad tripping, not knowing the difference between reality and the visions. I had to constantly reread to figure out what was going on. The blurred lines made it extremely frustrating. It is quite possible that I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to read a book like this. Maybe if I had read it at a different time, I would have enjoyed it more.

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