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The Unholy is a dramatic story of Claire Sanchez, a young medicine woman, intent on discovering the closely-guarded secrets of her past. Forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop, William Anarch, she confronts the dark side of religion and the horror of one man's will to power.
My review...
Very well-written. The flow of the reading is good. That
being said I thought it was painstakingly thorough. Not wordy but very
detailed.
The supernatural is not something I am fond of being such a
black and white thinker, but it seems as if DeBlassie has made this all fit
together. It seemed to work well as a thriller. Throughout the whole book I
felt as if there was an underlying message in this fictional work. Maybe that
was the idea.
read an excerpt...
“Hush now, child,” said a voice she recognized as that of her mother’s closest friend. “The man cannot harm you, mijita, as long as you are with us. We will make him think you are dead. But you must be very quiet. Ya no llores,” the woman warned, raising a finger to her lips.
The woman then carried her into a dark cave illuminated by the light of a single candle. The cave was frightening, with shadows of what appeared to be goblins and demons dancing on the red sandstone walls. “I will return for you soon. You will be safe here,” the woman said. The girl watched the woman walk away, shivering as a breeze blew through the cave’s narrow passages.
Closing her eyes, she rocked back and forth—imagining herself safe in her mother’s arms—then opened her eyes to the light of the full moon shining through the mouth of the cave. The shadows on the walls were just shadows now, no longer goblins and demons. As she slipped into a trance, images flickered in her mind. She saw the woman who had brought her to this place scattering pieces of raw meat around the open mesa where her mother had struggled, helped by two other women the girl could not identify.
Suddenly, the scene shifted to a stone ledge jutting over the mesa, and she heard the pounding footsteps of a man running toward the women. The girl felt her heart race and her breathing quicken, afraid that the bad man would spot them and kill them. Then the image shifted again, and she now saw on the mesa three gray wolves circling the raw meat and the man walking away from the granite ledge. As he left, she heard his thought: The child is dead.
about Paul DeBlassie III...
Paul DeBlassie
III, Ph.D. is a depth psychologist and award-winning writer living in his
native New Mexico. He specializes in treating individuals in emotional and
spiritual crisis. His novels, visionary thrillers, delve deep into archetypal
realities as they play out dramatically in the lives of everyday people.
Memberships include the Author’s Guild, Visionary Fiction Alliance, Depth
Psychology Alliance, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis
and Psychotherapy, and the International Association for Jungian Studies.
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