Nancy LaRonda Johnson
Autor de Anticipation of the Penitent
Obras de Nancy LaRonda Johnson
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1968-06-15
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- Hayward, California, USA
- Educación
- University of California, Santa Cruz
University of San Francisco, School of Law - Ocupaciones
- Deputy Probation Officer
- Biografía breve
- I am Nancy LaRonda Johnson, a passionate writer of Christian and other types of stories and poetry. I love work, family, church, yoga and tennis. After completing law school, I raised a niece and nephew for 10 years, during which I began working as a Deputy Probation Officer.
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 15
- Popularidad
- #708,120
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 3
As Alezea’s son, Thomas lives a sheltered life, spending most of his time with his father. He is raised to be a killer at the tutelage of his father, a social misfit and outcast with no one else to turn to. Alezea’s employer witnesses Alezea’s grief one night and suggests a religious camp to save Alezea and her son. Alezea sees the road to salvation and willingly embarks on it, hoping, for the first time, to redeem her son’s soul.
But Thomas doesn’t want to be redeemed. On his journey to punish his mother and the rest of her family, he meets a cousin with the intent of continuing the devil’s line.
This story will have a polarizing effect on its readers. There will be some that embrace it and there will be some that hate it. I have to say that the writing was not “crisp” but the story kept me reading. I could comment on some of the aspects that rub me the wrong way, but the overarching theme was “can you redeem a sociopath/serial killer?” And I kept reading to find out if Thomas was redeemable. The plot was well thought out, the journey was paced well. The conclusion was satisfying.… (más)