The Big Picture: Evolution vs. Creation

The Storyline: Beck was abducted by Sasquatches and science may be to blame.

From the standpoint of a person that is trying to improve their writing, I did get some good ideas on describing woodland scenes.

From the standpoint of a reader, it would be a great moral-at-the-end-of-the-story Christian children's tale, except that it's geared toward adults.

The scenes between Beck and her captors. She is the only character that evolves (heh) in my mind and she does it in a splendid and relatable way. (I gave the Character category a "3" rating, but keep in mind that the other [flat] characters really bring Beck's average down. }

The shift in progression from "Oh! Beck's dissappeared!" to "Ah, there are mad scientists afoot!"

Write the next chapter in my book, in which my characters are lost in a forest.

Though this book did nothing to impress me, the stlye, pace, and some points of the imagination made me want to read another Peretti book. I get the feeling that he is a gifted author, he just didn't strike gold with this piece.

It is an easy read and not a bad book. Should you decide to pick it up, my advice is to pay better attention to Cap's side excersion than I did when he first separated from the other characters.

The overall message is rather trite and is not presented in a new light nor was it laid out in a particularly "oh, yeahhh" kind of way. (Which, to me, is how an author must lay out a trite message in order to engage the reader.)

This is part of my Reading Resolution:

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