Review: An important bed time story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
Although I read Victory, rather than having it read to me, I felt like I was snug in the covers being told a very important bedtime story that continued from night to night.  Ms Beckstead's decision to not name several major character (The Visitor, The Stranger, Brown Eyes) at first irritated me, but soon led to the same comfort I felt when the grandfather was narrating the story in The Princess Bride.  Mind you, this is no fairy tale - it's literally a clash between good and evil, God and the devil, thinkers and blind followers, faith and those who fear to change the course.  Because of it being a faith based book, I knew good would prevail, but it did it without being preachy or vengeful.  My only disappointment was near the end, when Visitor, Stranger, and Brown Eyes were given names, and the epilogue where it was summed up into a neat happy ever after, with a bow on top, with a description of what everyone in town was doing six months or so later.  For me, the book had a perfect ending with the chapter before the epilogue.  I am slipping it into my Christmas collection of books and will re-read it every December.