Review written for ClubReading.com by Sally
Remember those cartoons where a little red demon is whispering in someone’s left ear to “go ahead” and an angel with a halo is whispering in his right ear to “think of the consequences”? The author would have us believe this senario is playing out just like for everyone every day.
It just may be that we are in the midst of a spiritual battle. The ancient writings of Paul warn us to “stand against the devil’s schemes.” Evidently, he does scheme. We are also told that there are specific angels assigned to wage war in our behalf.
The author has done his best to make us aware of the spiritual battle that rages around us and at us. The battle is not for the world or for the universe, for that already belongs to God the Creator. The battle is to influence the choices we make–to obey or not to obey God. Which side is winning the battle for you?
The author himself states in the afterword that he gives C. S. Lewis full credit for the premise of this book. It is very similar to C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. The premise–letters written by a senior demon to his apprentice demon. The letters give instruction on how to tempt and deceive humans and lure them into sin.
I have to admit that I could not bring myself to read very many of the letters written by the senior demon. Instead, I skipped to the portions that follow the story of Jordan Fletcher’s decision to believe in and live for Christ. The disgusting language in the demon letters is not the kind I listen to when I have a choice, so it is certainly not something I would choose to read. I personally don’t like being called sludgebag and vermin. I include a sample here to you can see my point.
These half-spirit, half-animal hybrids who inhabit this planet, our planet, are an endless source of fascination and frustration. They’re such creepy little things, misshapen baloons of flesh, bloated bags of liquid and alloy. Grossley inferior to spirit beings, they should be our servants–yet the Enemy would have made us theirs!
While I can’t rate this book as a favorite, a couple of this author’s other works are excellent and have been put in that category of books I could read and enjoy again. They are Deadline and Dominion.