The good - this is such a great series, edge of your seat action, suspense, intrigue, good solid character development.
The bad - there was a LOT more curse words in book two. A few in each chapter. It adds nothing to the dialogue, maybe once or twice - I could see (it is action packed after all and in the middle of action, words slip out), but it seemed as if the author went out of his way to slip most of these words in.
The ugly - the author misuses God's name in just about every single chapter. In fact the only time he uses it correctly is at the very end of the book. It is not needed and adds nothing to the dialogue/situation.
We are using this a listen-aloud every morning, and as such we decided to go ahead with book three, and hope it is more in line with the first one (in terms of word choice).
It Couldn't Just Happen by Lawrence O. Richards. This was SUCH a neat book. I love the lay-out of it. It is one of those books that admits when it doesn't know why or how, asks you questions that make you think instead of telling you what to think, and bases it's facts on the unshakable truth of God. You can use it as a unit study base or simply a read-aloud. Highly recommend.
For Lent this year I am using two devotionals. One is 40 days to Total Forgiveness by R. T. Kendall. It is based off of his book Total Forgiveness (which I have not read) and Taste for Truth by Barb Raveling. I need a deeper heart work in both areas, so I thought why not use this season of Lent to draw closer to God and ask Him to teach me? What are you using for Lent?
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