'His Sins' spans three generations of a struggling family, focusing on the fate of the women who ally themselves with ambitious, emotionally distant, and selfish men. Ms. Behnish creates compelling, complex and intricate characters, particularly in the case of Elsa, who the reader follows from before birth until the cliffhanger ending. The social and political events of the time periods covered by this novel come into play in realistic plot twists and scenarios that help develop character and build tension. Each generation is convincingly drawn - they all have different ways of speaking, thinking, and navigating their worlds. It's quite impressive that Ms. Behnish was able to carry some of the concerns of the first generation into the third without making all of the characters similar.
REVIEW BY MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST
'His Sins' is a captivating novel about how some decisions have the capacity to withstand lifetimes and generations. We follow one man's decisions and see how the ripple effect lasts generations affecting not only his children, but his children's children, and their children also. It makes us think twice about the lives we lead, and the intentions we hold dear to our hearts. It warns us of our motivations and how they not only affect our own individual lives, but also the lives of those we love most, and even the lives of those we will never meet. 'His Sins' makes us remember that what we do is important, and what we feel is even more so.
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