Cage of Stars

Haven't done a book review here lately. It's maybe time. My system for getting book recommendations is through Amazon. They recommend books based on my ratings of previous books. I get the books from the library and read them. I rate them. Amazon recommends more. It is a never ending supply of recommendations and it is free!
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Cage of Stars had been on my recommendations list for a long time before I went for it. Once I got it, I sailed right through it. It is an easy read. This is not to say it is a fluffy read. The book deals with some very important questions about reconciliation, forgiveness, retribution, family influence, religious doctrine and choices. One of the things I liked about it was that it allowed for a person to not know why she had done something. Because sometimes that is how it is.
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The weakness in this book is the number of coincidences which are explained by an Asian philosophy about things being connected by a red thread. The last link of that red thread was a stretch for me, but I'm used to working with cotton thread, not elastic . . . .
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In the opening pages of the book, Ronnie's sisters are murdered by a madman. The rest of the book is about her coming to terms with this. Interestingly,the doctrine of Ronnie's religion, the Church of the Latter Day Saints, plays an important part. I don't know that I've ever read a novel where there were Mormon characters or, better said, where it was important that the characters were Mormons. I learned a few very positive things about a faith tradition that mainstream Protestant denominations regard with suspicion at best, and often with disdain.
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Cage of Stars held my interest all the way through. At times it caused a lump to form in my throat. I would give it a B. Maybe a B+.