Review: Entertaining and interesting
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
The story starts with Lynette Lamb and her grandson Jeremy, who is picked on by some other boys. It turns out Lynette and Jeremy are two of the few Christians left on Earth, a few hundred years into the future. Lynette is dying, so she sends Jeremy to live with his father, who is leaving on a space shuttle to join a colony near a distant planet. Meanwhile, a demon-possessed man threatens the safety of the shuttle.In honesty, I had a hard time with the beginning. The scene with the boys picking on Jeremy dropped lots of hints about the world the author had built, but few of those hints were develop further. I was left wondering what was going on and how the allusions to “normalization” and the different colors Jeremy’s tormentors wore fit with the story. Some of this was explained, but not all.Once Jeremy and his father left for outer space, the story picked up and I got interested in what was happening and how the characters would resolve their conflicts. While my interest was held to the end, I felt like the ending was a little contrived to wrap up neatly. There also were those unanswered questions from the beginning that left me feeling like something was missing.In short, this was an entertaining read but the author could have done so much more with the interesting and complex world she had created.