“Brigid of Kildare”

This book at moments, I had to push my way through to the end. But overall it was a pretty neat read. If you are looking for a book that is focused on Brigid, whether it be goddess or saint, it is not fully.

In the book, it looks at three main characters in two different time periods. One being Brigid and her movement from being a pagan girl to a bishop/abyss (the church not like this). So if you want a Goddess Brigid book, this is not one. In the same time period is Decius – going there to be a scribe, who's part is pretty well written in the frame of him writing letters to his brother and the later interactions Brigid has with him – in her point of view. The third person in the book is Alex who is doing some work for the church and looking at manuscripts to see if there is any value to them/research them.

Eventually, Brigid and Decius's story merge and later Alex finds Decius's writings. It is Alex finding these documents that there would be a his name on them. If she finds his name on the documents there can be that connection to Brigid then other manuscripts that the monastery that employed her can have.

This book is more of a book relating to Brigid as a Christian woman and not a Pagan woman. It is not full of Christian fiction reading, one can find this in the fiction/historical fiction section of a bookstore. Overall it is a neat book to have a read through. It does go in between the three characters, if you are a fan or not of different perspective view books. If you have read any Jodi Picoult books, this one does move along like those. Through the different perspectives, the story does move forward and not in one place until all voices are heard.