Cameron B. (cameron55) -
Helpful Score: 2
This book is similar to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a Spanish nun capable of powers of "bilocation," or the ability to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, young journalist Carlos Albert is driven by a blinding snowstorm to the little Spanish town of Ãgreda, where he stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent founded by this same legendary woman. Intrigued by her rumored powers, he delves into finding out more. These threads, linked by an apparent suicide, eventually lead Carlos to Cardinal Baldi, to an American spy, and ultimately to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Narody unwittingly holds the key to the mystery that the Catholic Church, the U.S. Defense Department, and the journalist are each determined to decipher the Lady in Blue. This wasn't as good as "The Secret Supper" but interesting. If you have an interest in angels, the Catholic church, conspiracy theories, then you'll like this. This was an audio book that I waslistening to in the car and sometimes I'd get home and it was in the middle of a good part and I'd end up sitting in the car for 15 to 30 minutes before I could shut it down.
I had to fight to get through this book. I normally enjoy history and everything surrounding it, but this book jumped around so much I had trouble following it at times. It would stop at one location and then pick up in another and I'd be hanging there, wondering what the hell happened to such-and-such. I also found myself getting angry at the Church for the way they manipulate their followers to believe what they want them to believe, irregardless of the truth. I know it's always been this way, so I don't know why I got angry, other than it's rubbing your face in it. Anyway, I'm glad to be done with it.
