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I've read better, I've read worse. submitted by eknapp on November 26, 2014, 6:31pm Adam is a charismatic celebrity youth minister who preaches abstinence and proclaims his virginity to the world. Then his girlfriend is murdered in the most horrific way possible and the wheels come off his perfect life. While he rages and grieves--and travels to Africa to claim her body and hunt her killers--we explore the intersection of faith and sex through Adam's eyes.

The dialogue often sparkles, it's the one bright spot in this book. Seagle certainly got the youth pastor right, though the ones I knew didn't say "fuck" quite so much. The back of the volume contains several text-only interviews that are uniformly smart and funny.

Everything else about AV1 was pretty weak.

Pacing--Rushed. Adam is happy ambitious self-righteous bam girlfriend's dead bam off to Africa bam fighting with bad guys. Seriously, take a minute to breathe.

Logic--[SPOILER AHEAD] Adam flies to Africa and literally stumbles into one of the killers. Later, while they're hanging from a bridge, the bad guy spills all to Adam for no reason then commits suicide by cutting the rope and falling to his death. Dude...why didn't you just let go?

Art--Subpar. Backgrounds are often an afterthought. Adam's sister is supposed to be superhot but as drawn appears to be overweight and riddled with acne. Are those supposed to be freckles?

Meh. It's an interesting topic but the execution is lacking.