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Author: K.J. Fraser
Publisher: O Books
ISBN: 978-1-84694-206-8
A novel about the power of love, healing and atonement
Author: K.J. Fraser
Publisher: O Books
ISBN: 978-1-84694-206-8
Click Here To Purchase A Journey, a Reckoning, and a Miracle
There is quite a chilling opening to this imaginative, clever novel and when you realize just who it is having these dreadful nightmares about zombies and Osama bin Laden it does take you aback.
Reading on you discover that someone is working hard to get revenge because of the mutilation of a beautiful young woman. This is Judith, a victim of the war in Iraq, she is blind, badly injured with missing limbs and traumatized. I found the chapter where she and boy friend Joseph actually get it together, very touching.
The story is very sensitive and tender in parts. Judith could never have imagined that her journey both physically and mentally would ever lead her into the world of stand-up comedy. All she hoped for was that the man in charge of the country who had taken them into this war would just understand what terrible damage he had inflicted.
Now we meet seventeen year old Lucy who is brought up in a Bible loving household where her parents continually told her she would be “raptured” if she lived a good life. Lucy wasn’t convinced and became determined to make a pilgrimage to places where horrific acts of terrorism had taken place and pray there.
She sets off alone and vulnerable but her journey was to take her to places she could not have imagined. In her adventures she was to come across homosexuals and people who carried weapons. None of them interested in religion at all and certainly not part of Lucy’s plan.
We are then taken back in the story to the ex- leader of the country, who we now discover is called George, and is being visited in his nightmares by Mother Nature and Jesus. He becomes paranoid when visited by Osama and what occurs could be interpreted as rather prophetic.
Another group of people beginning their journey are some Iraqi war veterans with many various problems and deformities, they are armed with a great deal of ammunition.
You have to read on to discover how Lucy and friends become involved with them and other vicious criminals.
There are brilliant flashes of humour in this book, one that made me smile was George peeing on a bush he hated and it refusing to die.
You do care about the characters in this story which is really about good versus evil but with hope and the ability to overcome adversity with joy and faith.
The story is cleverly brought together with a climax that is magical in its powerful message so relevant to today’s society.
A novel about the power of love, healing and atonement.
Click Here To Purchase A Journey, a Reckoning, and a Miracle