{"id":46,"date":"2007-09-18T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T00:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/review-of-high-priestess-by-david-skibbins\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T20:51:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T00:51:41","slug":"review-of-high-priestess-by-david-skibbins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Review of High Priestess, by David Skibbins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"book-details\">\n<div id=\"book-title\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image45\" height=\"96\" alt=\"high_priestess.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/high_priestess.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div \/>\n<div \/>\n<div>High Priestess<\/div>\n<div id=\"book-author\">by David Skibbins<\/div>\n<p>Reviewed September 18, 2007.<br \/>\nThomas Dunne Books (St. Martin\u2019s Minotaur), New York, 2006. 280 pages.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I so enjoyed David Skibbins\u2019 first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/eightofswords.html\"><em>Eight of Swords,<\/em><\/a> I quickly snapped up his second <em>Tarot Card Mystery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This book also features the extremely quirky reluctant detective Warren Ritter. Even though he\u2019s used to running from trouble or suspicion or intimacy, he\u2019s sticking around Berkeley because of the new love in his life.<\/p>\n<p>In this book, we again find Warren riding the heights and depths of his manic-depressive condition, and again getting unjustly suspected by the police. Like the first book, the story is fun, absorbing, and unpredictable. We learn about a series of mysterious deaths which might all be accidents. Or are they a determined pattern, with Warren\u2019s old girlfriend on target to be the next victim?<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t particularly like it that Warren was asked to investigate these deaths by the leader of \u201cThe Church of the Arising Night,\u201d worshippers of Satan. The book includes a plausible sounding plea to join this cult, as well as the character of a sinister and threatening Christian minister. So if that would bother you in a novel, you should avoid this book.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I didn\u2019t particularly like those details, but it\u2019s not as if they suggest that all Christians are like this minister, or that joining the Church of Satan is a good idea. (Warren isn\u2019t interested.) I wanted to know what happened to the character, so I read on. With all his quirks and weaknesses and shadowy past, he\u2019s someone I find myself rooting for.<\/p>\n<p>This review is on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/high_priestess.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/high_priestess.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 High Priestess by David Skibbins Reviewed September 18, 2007. Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin\u2019s Minotaur), New York, 2006. 280 pages. I so enjoyed David Skibbins\u2019 first book, Eight of Swords, I quickly snapped up his second Tarot Card Mystery. This book also features the extremely quirky reluctant detective Warren Ritter. Even though he\u2019s used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-review","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}