Book Review - Monster by Frank Peretti
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It's been awhile since Frank Peretti had a new work out. His latest, Monster, isn't too bad...
Reed and Beck Shelton are going off to the woods for a weekend of roughing it. He's hoping this experience will give his wife Beck more self-confidence to overcome her shyness and stuttering problem. When they arrive at the cabin, it's been completely ransacked and destroyed. Thinking it might be bears, they camp out a short distance away, but whatever wrecked the cabin isn't gone. Even worse, there's more than one. The last thing Reed sees of Beck is her being carried off by some huge creature that looks like Bigfoot. But try convincing searchers and locals of that. The conventional wisdom is that a bear is what got Beck, but Reed and a few others are convinced that's not the case. And as they try and hunt down the creature, there's a good chance that not all the people involved in the search are on the same team...
Peretti is a Christian writer and novelist, and his books have an underlying spiritual theme. For this one, it's evolution and some of the problems with mutation and adaptation. It's not a heavy-handed sermon, so you *can* read the book just for the entertainment factor if you'd like. The story line isn't too far "out there" if you can accept the initial premise of a family of apelike creatures adopting a human into their midst. I enjoyed watching Beck come to grips with her situation and figure out the "family dynamics" of a species totally foreign to her.
I definitely found it driving me towards the finish to find out how it all turned out. Peretti will stay on my "should read" list with this book...
It's been awhile since Frank Peretti had a new work out. His latest, Monster, isn't too bad...
Reed and Beck Shelton are going off to the woods for a weekend of roughing it. He's hoping this experience will give his wife Beck more self-confidence to overcome her shyness and stuttering problem. When they arrive at the cabin, it's been completely ransacked and destroyed. Thinking it might be bears, they camp out a short distance away, but whatever wrecked the cabin isn't gone. Even worse, there's more than one. The last thing Reed sees of Beck is her being carried off by some huge creature that looks like Bigfoot. But try convincing searchers and locals of that. The conventional wisdom is that a bear is what got Beck, but Reed and a few others are convinced that's not the case. And as they try and hunt down the creature, there's a good chance that not all the people involved in the search are on the same team...
Peretti is a Christian writer and novelist, and his books have an underlying spiritual theme. For this one, it's evolution and some of the problems with mutation and adaptation. It's not a heavy-handed sermon, so you *can* read the book just for the entertainment factor if you'd like. The story line isn't too far "out there" if you can accept the initial premise of a family of apelike creatures adopting a human into their midst. I enjoyed watching Beck come to grips with her situation and figure out the "family dynamics" of a species totally foreign to her.
I definitely found it driving me towards the finish to find out how it all turned out. Peretti will stay on my "should read" list with this book...
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