handles difficult and suggestive content with discretion and tact.balances dark and gritty topics and themes with hope, light, and redemption.doesn’t shy away from the dark side of humanity (i.e., reality).shows Christian characters facing struggles just like non-Christian characters.carries Christian themes loud and clear but never in-your-face or preachy.doesn’t have a Christian main character or a clear conversion scene.I applaud the author for boldly writing a beautiful, gripping work of Christian fiction that But the light didn’t go off until 2:00, after I skimmed the entire second half of the book. That’s enough for one night, I told myself as I crawled back into bed. I read the first half until after midnight, then sat and cried for the emotions that, like Jonah’s fish in the water, loomed larger and larger in the story before finally breaking the surface between fiction and reality. (Thankfully it wasn’t three days and three nights before I returned to dry land, only 24 hours.) I started reading on my way to bed, and next thing I knew I was trapped inside the story like Jonah inside the belly of the fish. I didn’t devour this book, this book devoured me.
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