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bibliophiliadk's review against another edition
3.0
At first I was really into this book, I liked the premise of illustrating gentile narratives through one specific narrative, namely eucharistic desecration narratives. This way the author can create more of a focus and can penetrate the topic more deeply. But it wasn't long before I kind of changed my mind. About halfway through the book I was quite tirred of reading the same thing over and over again. Because while I think it's good to have focus on just one narrative, I wasn't thrilled about the fact that the narrative never really evolved - this way every example sounded like the one before it. And that became tedious. And then there was the overall purpose of the book. I didn't feel that Rubin had a specific goal, that she knew exactly what she wanted to enlighten her readers about. And if she did, she didn't work hard enough to convince me.
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