Product Description

Maggie O'Connor raises her grand-daughter Cody until she is 2 and half when her daughter Jenna-newly married into money-reclaims her.When Maggie visits she finds Cody vacant-eyed & fearful, but the police can do nothing!This becomes a tale of Devil worship & will a prophecy come true?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1032805 in Books
• Published on: 1994-04-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 510 pages

Review
Spellman's corpulent, noisy, sagas with their pretzel plots (Paint the Wind, 1990, etc.) have dealt with earthly mayhem; but now we get a mammoth occult bash, much of the action taking place several mystical leagues off the ground and back all the way to ancient Egypt - with demons booming, gorge-rising sanguinary rites, and a cosmic battle of Satan's fan club vs. a grandmother. Maggie O'Connell's daughter, lost hophead Jenna, had left off her infant, Cody, at Maggie's New York apartment. But now, two years later, three-year-old Cody becomes the epicenter of a cosmic battle. It seems that Cody is really a Messenger of the goddess Isis and capable of Materializing the "Isis Amulet," which will bring the absolute power of Good. Also awaiting Materialization is the "Stone of Sekhmet" (very, very bad). Slavering to get at the Stone and defeat Good is a cartel of slime-buckets who are big in drug and arms sales. The grue gang has readied a Connecticut mansion for a dandy Walpurgisnacht ritual. Cody is now the legal possession of a prime nasty who's married to blank-eyed Jenna, and he is being mentally tortured by a terrifying nanny, exposed to a cellar-ful of caged blood "donors" (called, with reason, the "Screamers") and other miseries. Grandmother Maggie is determined to rescue Cody and collects her allies: a soul-scouring priest, an aged mystic rabbi, a knowledgeable "metaphysician," a police lieutenant, plus a team from Israel's secret army. With lessons in mystic lore, many travels back and forth to ancient Egypt, and uncovering of plots as the deadline to killer-rites nears, there's lots going on. The windup rescue in the crypt with a loud demon who's a whiz at dialectic is a wow. Occult twaddle with a surface scholarly sheen: it's all breathless and urgent - and will probably Materialize on the bestseller lists. (Kirkus Reviews)

Customer Reviews

Unputdownable!
I have read this book over and over again and I will read it some more! This book contains everything: sacrifice, murder, drug abuse, love, religion, pain and joy. I laughed and cried with this tale of a mother and grandmother. The different religious aspects of the book were fasinating, blending the two different paths of Christianity and Paganism must of been hard but CCS did it brilliantly. I recomend this to any reader as this is a great story with a great begining, middle and end!

A Great Thriller mixed with Detective stories and Romance
"Bless The Child" is one of the best and most well-written books I've ever read. Having always been a Stephen King's fan on the supernatural-occult kind of thriller novels, I imagined it difficul that there could be another writer that could impress me even more. This book prooved me how deeply wrong I was! I found the book last year, I read it 3 times, with the same and even more enthusiasm and interest each time. Unlike many books, this one is not a book you read once and then put it away. The reader gets so captivated from all the characters and the way each one of them interferes with the plot and contributes to it, that you really have to read it many times to really enjoy it as well as understand it as much as possible to every extent. It combines horror with big quantity of romance, with no shortage of detective (NYPD homocide dept.) related cases and characters descriptions. Although a novel with quite ficticious aspects, (i.e. Isis's amulet and Sechmet's stone) Cash's wanted to make a novel based on real therories and practises, from many different cultures from allover the world, spanning a big historical period. For that reason, extensive research is obvious in her careful depictions and explanations of various schools of esoteric ideology and practices. Her characters and descriptions are well built and are definitely believable. (Ellie's and Peter's characters are fine examples that prove it). Maggy o'ConnorThis breath-taking from start-to-end novel, will definitely trigger your appetite to actually do research and learn things on some of the subjects in the thematology used by the author to create it. An interesting bibliography is provided with this book for this reason.

Excellent as good as the Movie if not better
If you enjoyed Bless The Child you'll Love this. It is a very Religious, Thriller type of book where Good fights the Evil! For 15+ ages. Excellent