For about 2/3 of this book, I loved, loved, loved it. Sorensen is such a great writer, and everything was vivid, eloquent, and just fantastic.

Maybe I just had too high of hopes, because the last part sort of fell apart for me. It became a laundry list of quoting straight from the New Testament rather than a story. The language got stilted, because so much was drawn straight from the scriptures--one second you have Peter being funny and casual and goofy and the next, he's going all eloquent and formal King James on the reader.

One big part at the end (no spoilers) felt like a cop-out, something that could have been built up in a really cool way. Instead, I felt cheated because the whole story is told in one person's head, so we should have known everything he did, but the author witheld one important bit for some big "aha" at the end. Didn't work for me.

The first 2/3 deserve 5 stars. The last third, maybe 3. Averaged out, 4 stars.