this book was pretty good, but I also think it could've done with more marinating and revising before it got released--it reads a lot like if I'd been allowed to write a book my first year of seminary. I also think some more research and broader reading wouldn't have gone amiss (there are indeed already people who have analyzed and felt sympathy for Judas Iscariot, including, of all people, Karl Barth).
what I did really like was her expression of anger, her connections to Jacob, and what I most liked was when she analyzed what it meant that she lied a lot as a kid and then looped that back around to what it means to try and be a truth-teller now.
it's not bad and it's a quick read, but I think a revised version in a few years will have more to offer