Sacrificial Lamb Cake

There’s clearly a lot going on in this book, with major religious undertones, overtones, and everywhere in-between! Quick note: Jude is the one and only Judas, so you can see where this story is going (not a spoiler! he’s introduced on the first page). He has come up with a plan to increase people’s faith once again by creating a figurehead for the Messiah. Little does he know, that figurehead may have some real stuff going on and an all-out war is threatening just below the surface.

This is a fictional telling of many people from the Bible, much different than what you may have learned in church, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there are many Christians that are uncomfortable with this book. If the premise is already putting you off, I think you’d be better off avoiding this one. I don’t believe the author is intending this to be read as an alternative way of viewing Christianity. For myself, I was able to separate the two and read this as the satire it is intended as.

The humour in it is quite natural so it was a fun read, even though I was reading about the apocalypse. Somehow the author was able to keep it light even with the horrific events that took place. That’s not to say that she downplayed these events. Our main character, Rain, faces an entire upheaval of her life and this is given significant weight in the book. Still, it doesn’t weigh down the whole book so there’s this nice balance that the author has created.