Warning: review contains plot spoilers! ( :-) For those of us who are still making our way through the complete corpus of works, erasing a lifelong paucity of experience, but who do not want to progress with undue haste.)

Thank you very sincerely, Gina, for spreading the word about this. Having read only a few of the books so far, I had suspected they must have been motivated by more than a mere cultural Christianity. I'm pleased to know that the author was writing with both his own culture and times and also more universal themes in mind.