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Review: House

Medium ImageSort of like combining Stephen King and C.S. Lewis.

“House: The Only Way Out is In” (WestBow Press) is a very suspenseful and intense novel by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker. In fact, it’s so intense, I cannot in good conscience recommend this to kids or to the squeamish.

The entire first half of the book is setup and character building, and very well done. You can identify and sympathaze with a part of each character or an entire character, depending on you. Impatience, materialistic, vulgar, selfish, character flaws are spread amply around to everyone.

The second half of the book starts combining this horror novel with Christianity, and it becomes obvious that this is no ordinary house the characters are trapped in. Their fears, their ambitions, their flaws are amplified, and try as they might to overcome their own desires, they are sucked deeper and deeper into the house and it’s basement. Only when they realize they cannot survive on their own do they realize they need help; and even when help arrives and tries to lead them to safety, some resist. Not all survive.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and will probably read it a second time, but I didn’t recommend it to my wife. Beware and enjoy.

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Michael

Follower of Jesus, conservative, freedom-loving patriot.

2 responses to “Review: House”

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    Kathleen Marie

    I liked this book although it was rather creepy. I make sure I read Peretti’s books when my husband is around. They can give a lady like me nightmares 😯

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  2. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    That’s an accurate testimony to the writing – very good and creepy. Keep the lights on. 🙂

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Michael, a sinner saved by grace, sharing what the good Lord has shared with me.

Solomon, in the book of Ecclesiastes, said, “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”

If you’re not living for the glory of God, then what you’re doing is meaningless, no matter what it is. Living for God gives life meaning, and enjoying a “chasing after the wind” is a gift from God. I’m doing what I can to enjoy this gift daily.

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