Probably the weakest in the Girard saga, this is an exhortation of all the things about Girard that are not good, from a theologian apologists' point of view. Entirely too dry unless cheerleading its own anti-secular assumptions.
The association of atheism and rationality with national socialism and communism in some parts of the book baffles, as does the outright dismissal of Dawkins' meme theory as "incomplete" compared to mimetic theory.
However, the book makes up for it in the readings of apocalyptic texts according to Girard, with a call to shed mimetic thinking in favour of an open inquiry that does not scape-goat.
It's a bit of a chore to get through, but not necessarily a bad book. Skip the first half if you can.
4/10