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The Lady in Blue: A Novel
by Javier Sierra
from Washington Square Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Awful: A big letdown
  I picked this up at a half-price bookstore. This book is bad, i think i'll just throw it away rather than exchange it and let someone else suffer. Here's why (a few examples): 1) It has too much "tell" and not enough "Show". The author has to tell us rather than show us the story. And the author's voice and opinion should never come to the reader thru narration. 2) It uses a variety of words when one would be best. Sometimes it is a stolen book, sometimes a purloined book. Who translated this? Ugh. 3) Jesus... more info

• The Lady in Blue
  It is documented that a "lady in blue" converted the Native Americans of New Mexico to Catholicism about three hundred years ago. This lady turned out to be a seventeenth century Franciscan nun, who never left her convent in Spain. This interesting true story of bilocation is combined with some intriguing theories about the Catholic Church, reminiscent of Javier Sierra's other successful novel, The Secret Supper. The plot may be difficult to follow at times, because it floats between linked plots of various... more info

• `I believe it because it is impossible to believe.'
  What are the connections between the visions seen recently by Jennifer Narody, Carlos Albert and by the Mexican Jumano tribe some 300 years ago? Is it possible that the Lady in Blue is a sixteenth century nun with powers of bilocation? And why is the US Department of Defense interested?
  Mr Sierra's novel is based in part on Sister María de Jesús who lived in Spain (1602 to 1665. An old Spanish historical mystery awakens the interest of a number of people including several cardinals in... more info

• What's missing?
  This novel could have been a riveting historical thriller but it falls flat. The elements are there: a conspiracy within the Church, a secret group, someone on the verge of discovering the truth, historical intrigue (sound familiar?).
  But something is missing here. Why did I manage to get through this book and still have more questions than answers. Chronovision is/was real? How, what, who, why, where? And why, only after reading reviews here did I realize I missed some important points: the Inquistion... more info

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