SuitabookLeft behind
Jerry B. Jenkins
- Reading
- Because this is the third series instalment, consider checking whether your reader wants the earlier story context before starting. You could pause after the opening to see how the apocalyptic premise feels to them.
- Themes
- Faith and persuasion: Judd, Vicki and Lionel try to persuade Ryan to accept Christ; Judd makes church and Bible study conditions of Ryan living with them. The outline establishes pressure to participate, but not whether the narrative endorses, questions or complicates it.
- End-times beliefs and danger: Set after the Rapture, the story has the friends watch for the Antichrist and a foretold period of tribulation. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Drug use and a reported death: Lionel investigates the mysterious circumstances of his drug-addled uncle’s supposed death. The outline establishes these plot elements but does not show how drug use or the death is portrayed.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes a looming apocalyptic threat and an uncle described as drug-addled whose death is investigated. The level of detail or intensity in these scenes is not clear.