I’d originally spent three hours or so writing a two pages long review of this novel, but the more I wrote, the more clear it was to me that it was crap. The review, I mean, not the novel itself. Because the novel was okay. A bit too adolescent humor at times, and a kinda flaccid omni-religious theme, but still fun. Touching, even, at times, especially when Joshua was at his most vulnerable. But not something I really have to — or can — write several pages about, without turing the subject matter into incomprehensible mush.

So I’ll just limit myself to saying that this was a slightly more than okay read, and that I recommend it to any looking for some biblically grounded jokes and a kind of a Late Antiquity, Middle Eastern road trip novel. 6.0/10.