Review: Good story for its genre
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2014
Make no mistake. This is Christian oriented fiction. If you tune your dial to Christian rock, or country music; if you read a bible every morning before breakfast; if Sunday morning finds you in the pew listening to a good Baptist sermon, if you feel compelled to say, "have a blessed day" more than five times in a day, this book is for you.The author draws heavily on Christian religious dogma- faith for the backbone of this story, and of course, in the story it all becomes true. That's why they call it 'gospel', now aint it?A plane goes down in the Florida Swamp, a lone survivor shows up a the crash investigation and questions quickly emerge as to his motives, and he becomes the lead suspect. In spite of his claim of having been mysteriously teleported at the last instant to his home in Charleston. He and the lead crash investigator find themselves curiously drawn to each other, a subplot-line that figures heavily at the end. Multiple storylines lead us toward the clash between good and evil with Angels, and Demons smiting each other to gain the upperhand.I would say that the author does a pretty fair job of weaving these together, and the ending, while telegraphed many chapters before, is satisfying. I'll let you guess who wins.This one gets a four as it is a pretty decent story, even with all the Christian clap-trap. It would be better without a lot of it, but that would defeat the authors intent; to frame a fire and brimstone Sunday sermon in a fictional setting.There are a number of typos which will bug the discerning reader. Like the mispelling of the word Cavalry with the transposition of the 'L' and the 'V'. Hmmm maybe that one was intentional. There are others. The book could have used some editing.Bottomline- a fair to decent story and generally solid writing. Click past all the proselytizing, as I did and you will be entertained.