Review: Harsh Religious Undertones
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2013
Battle Scream, by Mark Romang, is a book that follows Andrew Maddox, a discharged Navy seal who decides to become a preacher to at a small church in a city in Utah.  Andrew discovers that there are demons that live in the church, and not only are they there, but he has been chosen by God himself to battle them and remove them from earth.  Maddox teams up with a young woman named Sarah.  Sarah has a somewhat broken past of her own, but together they face whatever comes their way.When I read the description of this book, I felt that it was going to be a great book.  I was pretty excited to pick it up and start reading it.  It sounded new and fresh, but what I got was not what I was expecting.  Though the author did a great job at bringing the story together, I felt that the book was extremely under-edited. It was also a little hard for me to get past the harsh church-like undertones.  I do not have a problem with religion, but I felt that this book tried extremely hard to throw religion into the mix, that it was almost distracting from the story itself.