Susan Garth is 16 years old and like most 16 year olds she has problems. Her father may have killed her mother, someone may have tried to rape her and she just might be possessed by Satan or she may just be crazy.
Father Gregory is a priest rooted in logic and psychology, he likes to drink and he might be a heretic because he doesn't believe in Satan.
When Father Gregory gets reassigned to a parish in a small town as punishment for being drunk while performing last rites he meets Susan Garth a clearly troubled teen who is afraid of going to hell. She's refusing to attend church and she got naked and attacked the priest who ran the parish previously to him. Father Gregory thinks she needs psychological help but Bishop Crimmings is convinced that she's possessed after a game of "is that a half dollar, quarter or rosary crucifix on your arm?" ends in a painful burn.
Exorcisms seem to be boring, besides vomiting and uttering the word "shit" not much happens and I felt that same sense of boredom when I read The Exorcist. I guess exorcisms in general are boring affairs.
Russell populates this book with minor characters who's only purpose is that of filler, they really do nothing to move the story along.
I don't know if this book was considered frightening or shocking in 1962 but I do know that in 2016 its neither.
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