{"id":986,"date":"2009-02-02T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=986"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:32:13","slug":"pimping-me-more-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/pimping-me-more-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimping \u2026 me! More reviews."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More reviews!  You readers are rackin\u2019 \u2019em up and I appreciate every single one, believe me.  Lessee, from the latest three, at Amazon:<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R18N24LX2RJQMY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"big125\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Oddly enough, I see a lot of talk of it being specifically Mormon, and though I found that lent an interesting thread of morality you don\u2019t see every day, it\u2019s also ALL about the sex. Surely, this didn\u2019t come from the same ideology as those fanatics who spent a fortune trying to manhandle CA politics or force feed us the Osmonds as paragons of virtue \u2026 The religious undertones didn\u2019t even strike me as odd until I stepped away from the story and realized how much the rest of it doesn\u2019t fit with the stereotype. I\u2019m still not sure how to integrate the two \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>[ \u2026 ] What most of us identify as \u201cMormon\u201d just doesn\u2019t really factor into the story. It\u2019s more of an interesting little sidebar and to focus on that aspect ignores the fact that in general, it\u2019s just a damned good story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/RWVYVSBH1EBLD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"big125\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p> \u2026 it is one of few books I\u2019ve read where religion and politics mingle, and it was quite a ride. Like a previous reviewer mentioned, I did have stereotypes in mind when I opened this book, and it made the characters all the more human to me, because even though I am not a fan of politics, nor a member of the Morman church, I could still relate.<\/p>\n<p>Moriah Jovan has a gift with words, and a wonderful ability to make her characters so vivid. The heroes, the heroines, and everyone else that crossed their paths throughout the course of the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R1R3Z3WYT5VO3J\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"big125\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>The quixotic mixture of murder, revenge, sex, and religion is really what caught my attention about this book in the first place, especially in the context of the Mormon religion. Wallace Stegner once wrote that \u201cit is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reasons that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jovan has achieved a remarkable degree of success in this regard, allowing non-Mormons fascinating glimpses in a natural manner without bombarding us with definitions and explanations. There is a refreshing honesty and lack of rationalization when it comes to questions of morality and faith in a modern world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>[ \u2026 ] The characters are strongly delineated and fascinating. They are the most vivid and striking people I\u2019ve had the pleasure of \u201cmeeting\u201d via the printed page in a long time. They may be a bit larger than life, so to speak, but never over the top. <strong>I don\u2019t always agree with them or like them, but I will always remember them.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bold is mine. \u2019Cause it\u2019s my favorite part of the whole review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/product\/0981769616\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Overall, 4.25\/5 stars for 8 reviews on Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More reviews! You readers are rackin\u2019 \u2019em up and I appreciate every single one, believe me. Lessee, from the latest three, at Amazon: 1. LINK Oddly enough, I see a lot of talk of it being specifically Mormon, and though I found that lent an interesting thread of morality you don\u2019t see every day, it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-mojo","category-the-proviso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16978,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/16978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}