Deadline

Deadline by Randy Alcorn (?)

Read ebook version. This book was not really what I was expecting when I started to read it. I thought it would be more centered on the mystery and detective. However, I ended up enjoying the book a lot. It is well written with believable dialogue. The message is great. I would like to read the other 2 books featuring Ollie Chandler. ( )

This book was recommended to my husband and he encouraged me to read it as well. When I first started it my thoughts were, “No way. This is a guy book.” War and football are definitely for men. He, however, encouraged me to get into it further and boy am I glad I did. The mystery/suspense create quite the page turner. At times I had to laugh that we readers knew so much more than the characters, but then I realized that that is true in my own writing as well. I took it a little further than Mr. Alcorn, however, but I won’t go into that here.

I very much enjoyed the eye-opening information about abortions and organ donors. The strong Christian witness was so evident and a blessing to read. Many of the trials were so real to life; I felt I learned so much from reading this novel. I’ve been encouraged to do even little things for the Lord, not that I’ve ever done great things, but just the realizations that we should not think that one person can’t accomplish little steps toward a great thing. This book encouraged me to action and not just the wishing to do for the Lord, and I’m a big “wisher” for the Lord. I dream of a time in the near future that abortions will be outlawed, and that to start here in the Bible Belt. We churches, all Christians, need to start to stand for what is morally right. This isn’t a political issue. It’s a God issue, and with His help, we can stop the needless murder of babies. How I’d like to see North Carolina lead the way and be the first state to band abortion.

Mr. Alcorn’s writing was able to transport me into the lives and times of his characters. I found his heaven scenes interesting; he has a great imagination. That has caused me to think more on heaven and my eternal home. I have a great desire to live for the life to come, putting service to Christ and my future with Him in a much higher priority.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. ( )

The author does a great job of keeping the reader on the edge of their seat attempting to discover the "Who dunnit?" At the same time he doesn't keep you on the edge of your seat speculating about the point he is trying to make. Well written although slow moving in a few places. If you're looking for an interesting portrayal of what Heaven might be like, here's a refreshing viewpoint, presented by Randy Alcorn that stays pretty close to the information provided by the Bible, leaving you plenty of room to consider the implications. Well worth the time spent enjoying this book...provided you don't have to meet a Deadline! ( )

The bad news: I downloaded the e-book version, and I don't know if the semantic noise I found was because of that format or inherent within the paper version. The semantic noise I ran into was around a dozen typos and several instances of possessive nouns lacking the apostrophe. Although I was not proofreading per se (if I were, I probably would have found more errors), the fact that the errors occurred distracted part of my concentration on the story.

Having said that, the crime story was entertaining and the underlying Christian theme was artfully woven into the crime story in a compelling manner that is sure to resonate with evangelical Christians. Although the descriptions of Heaven were somewhat unorthodox, nevertheless they were not objectionable, and will certainly give the reader pause to consider Heaven and its possibilities. On a similar vein, the description of Hell was vivid and should give readers even more pause to consider their afterlife destination if the escape that is detailed in the book is ignored.

Finally, despite the typos and punctuation problems, the author does something excellent that I have not seen any other author do, and that is use words that are in the common lexicon versus other author's too often attempts to impress readers with multi-syllable words of uncommon usage. The author's use of common language----not necessarily simple language, but the language of everyday use----makes for an easy read.

Five stars, for sure! ( )