My rating: 4 of 5 stars Too often, biblical historical fiction does little more than borrow some biblical characters for a story that could have happened concurrently with biblical events, and that intersects with biblical events at points. I believe writers in this...
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...
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