My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of the better Ted Dekker book I’ve read. It held my interest throughout, which rarely happens with a novel (or any book for that matter). The storytelling was intriguing–especially the depiction of the delightful...
My rating: 4 of 5 stars The one thing I know for sure about this book is that I need to read it again. This time, slower. For most modern fiction readers, among whom the adjective “preachy” is an epithet in describing a novel, a book like this one will be...
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I wish I would have read this book before writing my own novel. It’s a well-done allegory. Peretti does a masterful job at making the allegory almost invisible until midway through the book. At the moment the meaning of the dragon is...
My rating: 1 of 5 stars The Good When you write a book review, usually even if you really didn’t like the book you point out the good things about the book. And I will tell you that there are a number of excellent things in The Shack. I found some of them very...
My rating: 2 of 5 stars I wasn’t especially impressed. Rivers did a fair job describing the biblical events, but the storytelling did not hold my attention. The dialogue seemed unrealistic to me and the story had a feel of “this happened, then this...
My rating: 2 of 5 stars I found the first half of the book somewhat boring. At the midpoint, Dekker reveals what’s going on, and why so many strange things are happening. Once that was revealed, the story became compelling. Until then, it was just …...
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