\*spoiler warning\* Ok so i didn't know what to expect from this book as i have never read anything by this author before. The things i really liked about this book was Mary's passion described very vividly. Mary was a likeable character from the get go: she feels like us, thinks like us, but lets herself be let by God only. I liked (when i had gotten past the shock value of it) the relationship developed between herself and the second love of her life: Jude. My stomache was turning quite a bit when i read where he had been. I guess it hit me kind of raw. Because i read about little Jude. So the reader establishes this reltionship with Jude, and then you hear what he's been up to. It's loke hearing an acquaintance go trough hell really. But those things are a reality nowadays en back then. Things i didn't like. The appearing of Jesus. At one point the author write that she touches Jesus, allowing mary margaret to comapre herself to the disciple Thomas. I think this went to far. I have never experienced God in this way, and have never heard of anybody experiecing God in this way. Not that this is not ipmossible, for everything is possible in God. But i remember Jesus leaving us His Holy Spirit to communicate trough. The author could have just stayed with that in my opinion. And i thought the flipflopping with the story really confused me. It was described on other websites as really talking to your grandmother: they usually -God bless their dear hearts- find it hard to stay ontopic;-). The book was written like that, very frustrating. I found myself skipping pages, because i wanted to follow the more important story: about Mary and her quest for God to save Jude. Lasty, the end was very unsatifying in my opinion. Jude went trough all that mess, to get murdered with a knife and die from it. I don't believe God works in that way, and i think this really misrepresents the ways of God. I think the point the author was trying to make was missed by letting Jude die in this way. How better would it have been to let Jude be wounded perhaps but live his live getting to know God, and changing into His image, alongside his wife Margaret. The author lets Jude die when he's still not, in my opinion where His wife is spiritually, or does not express himself in this way. I think there were multiple possibilities to end this story in a way for the reader to walk a way with something more concrete spiritual wise. All in all not a bad book at all, it got me thinking about my relationship with God, so that's always good!