QUAKER INDICTMENT [Paperback]

Irene Allen (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: St Martins Pr (1998)
• ASIN: B000OTJPRQ
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Missing Friends, December 10, 2001

By 

Emily Schnabl (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quaker Indictment (Quaker Sojourn) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have previously enjoyed Irene Allen's Elizabeth Elliot novels, especially as she has revealed the rich community setting of a Quaker meeting and the inner spiritual life of her protagonist Friend. I was tremendously disappointed in this book. Allen removes Elliot from her natural location, and, as Elliot spends the novel commenting on her dislocation, so the reader feels dislocated as well, with no reward. The circle of Friends whom Elliot relies on is gone, and the characters and suspects she encounters here are not developed enough for us to care. The reader is told much but shared with not at all. I hope if Allen continues to write this series that she returns Elliot to her home in Cambridge and novels that are more fully developed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A great disappointment, March 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Quaker Indictment (Hardcover)

I really loved all three of the previous books in this series. I am not a Quaker, nor even a Christian, but I was deeply interested in Elizabeth Elliot and her spiritual journey, which complemented in a very suitable way the mystery story in each book.

I had some difficulty in believing that the same author had written this book. It was preachy, unfocussed, digressive and completely unsatisfying, all things the previous ones were not. I have much sympathy with the political position the author takes in this book, but it's a d**n poor mystery story, and not even a good political rant, as each gets in the way of the other. Distressing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ageism Reigns!, November 11, 2006

By 

Susan F. Rakoczy "Susan Rakoczy" (Hilton, South Africa) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Quaker Indictment (Quaker Sojourn) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read a previous Allen Quaker mystery, "Quaker Witness", and enjoyed it though I found her repeated reference's to Elizabeth Elliot's age annoying. "Quaker Indictment"'s ageism is much worse. The two main characters met in college 40 years ago--therefore they are in their early 60s. Yet Allen repeatedly calls Elliot "the old Quaker". In the library copy I read, a previous reader circled some of the "old Quaker" references and why, "Why is 60 old?". Indeed, Ms. Allen, why do you characterize her as "old" so often? How old are you? Perhaps to you 60 seems the apex of decripitude. But the incoming Speaker of the House is 66; would Allen call Nancy Pelosi "an old Speaker"? I chide Allen's editor for not recognizing the ageism and correcting it. The story as a whole is not well done and the characters do not develop. It hardly deserves one star.