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Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Catholic edition

Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry

April 19, 2019 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

Heretics Anonymous is billed as The Breakfast Club meets Saved! but that is giving it too much credit. That isn’t to say Heretics is disappointing, I enjoyed it immensely, but it is a pretty straightforward YA novel. There is your standard love story, although our heroine longing to be a Catholic priest when she grows up is a bit of a twist, and the well worn struggle of a son who doesn’t get along with his mostly absent father. Michael’s family has moved for the fourth time in ten years. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Heretics Anonymous, katie henry

Caitlin_D's CBR11 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Heretics Anonymous, katie henry ·
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“My personal motto has always been if you’ve already dug yourself a hole too deep to climb out of, you may as well keep digging.”

Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry

March 16, 2019 by cosbrarian 4 Comments

Michael Ausman is seething. His father has uprooted their family yet again for a job promotion — this time Michael was barely two months into his junior year. Now he is faced with making yet another new group of friends in another new school, and to make matters worse, that school is a Catholic one. Michael is an atheist, and he has no interest in setting down any roots lest they be ripped back out again. But on the first day of school, he is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: activism, atheism, Catholicism, contemporary fiction, debut author, debut novel, katie henry, Realistic fiction, Religion, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: activism, atheism, Catholicism, contemporary fiction, debut author, debut novel, katie henry, Realistic fiction, Religion, YA, Young Adult ·
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