Review: Mr. Somers, you need an editor...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2011
Let me be frank up front.  I am a Christian with all that implies.  Yet I did not like this book and I am not sure I am going to ever read another book by this artist.  From the clumsy dialog to the sloppy plot line to the incredibly bad writing this book was a failure.  For example, there is a point at which the protagonist is helping someone up.  The prose reads something like "Jonathan reached out his hand and Jonathan took it."  I am not kidding.  Now, that may be slightly paraphrased, but the essentials are there.  For example, there is a battle in an office building where the police are getting absolutely creamed.  Do they stop and regroup?  Does anybody say "these tactics are not working?"  Nope.  They continue fighting using the old methods until practically everyone is dead.These same mistakes are made over and over and over again in this novel.  I will say that those few snippets about the Christian Faith that Mr. Somers shared were pretty spot on, even if clumsily delivered, but that's about as far as I am willing to go to provide praise for this book.  If you are bored silly, and for some reason absolutely nothing else is available and if you can get this book for free, then go ahead and read it.  Otherwise spend your money on something else.  C. S. Lewis' space trilogy is a better choice, or perhaps Kathy Tyers' Firebird trilogy if you can find it.  Anything by Bill Myers makes this guy look worse than amateurish, though his Charismatic leanings come through pretty strongly.  Look, just find something else to buy.  This book isn't worth the effort.