The cover art is really eye-catching, isn't it. The young adult women's group from my church is reading this, meeting to discuss one chapter a month. This book is good for inciting discussion but it's not as exciting or interesting as its cover. DeYoung is heavy on the Thomas Aquinas references; basically she basis the whole book on his perspective. She defines each sin up and down backward and forward.

I thought this would be a spiritual self-help book, but it's really an intellectual thesis. She should speak to the reader and say "You." As in, "Take a look at yourself. Are you humble or vainglorious?" Instead she says "we," which is ok. Too many examples from movies and hardly any from the Bible. What I did like was learning some of the deeper definitions of sloth and gluttony. Like, gluttony is not just the one definition of excessive over-eating by someone who puts the pleasures of the stomache above all else; it is also being super-picky and unthankful of the food that is available by someone who puts eating only "certain foods a certain way" above all else. Sloth should be an interesting discussion as there is a lot that falls under this category, including melancholy.