Lori McGowan

Must read

Revisado: 07-25-24

If every disciple of Christ read and lived like this, the world would be a different place. I just finished my first listening of this book... It definitely won't be my last.

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Enjoyed it and will keep reading

Revisado: 05-30-24

The story was still really good but it did drag on a little bit for me. One of the characters plot lines drug on a little too long IMO. But overall I still can't wait to read the next one.

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Excellent material and story

Revisado: 05-24-24

Loved it! Characters are real life not super heros. Great reading. Great material to learn with.

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Great story and Info

Revisado: 05-19-24

I've read a lot of this type of book. This is a great one to recommend to folks that need the encouragement and beginners that need to know where to start. Good story and characters!

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Wake up call... Must read

Revisado: 07-25-22

Extremely well done and researched. I've been in the public school system as a teacher, an EA and a college prep advisor for 30 years, my husband and I ran (along with other community members) a small country Christian school for 10 years, both my children and my husband are public school teachers BUT I highly recommend every parent and grandparent that loves their kids, put your preconceived notion of education aside and read this book! It is filled with information I wish I would have known earlier, but am blessed to know now. The book demands action and thoughtful reflection. Excellent, challenging.

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Could have been better but...

Revisado: 03-01-20

Great narration. I enjoyed how he did the voices and I can often get annoyed by that aspect of narration. I would definitely listen to this guy.

The story was pretty good and could have been a4-5. The resason I rated it low was because it was just weird. It is written by people who I think are Christians and they try and bring God into it but they relentlessly focus on this 3 way weird relationship that one could only assume they've dealt with in their marriage. I wouldn't have thought anything about it if it was just part of the story but it gets brought up over and over and over. And it is already a weird and unrealistic relationship but to keep hashing it out??? I got so tired of hearing about it. It really wasn't an interesting relationship, however, they did do a good job with some of the other relationships and characters. But this one became way to hashed out. But then I'm sure they will just chalk my comments up to being "self-righteous".

Which leads me to my second concern... They spend way too much time when they do bring God into it, judging Christians for bring judgmental. The irony. Over and over, that is their focus... You go from an inspiring, we'll done, faith-based encouragement from the wife to her husband, then ends with her dropping an F bomb. Huh? They actually seem to invite judgements but set up their story to judge you if you're judging them. It was over the top. They've obviously been wounded by someone in the church.

They go on and on about how much the Bible talks about not judging people, without addressing the issue that we are indeed not supposed to judge non-believers, but we are certainly called to hold other believers accountable for their actions. As iron sharpens iron...

In any case, I'm sure they will chalk this up to just another self-righteous Christian thinking they should have standards for their story and this platform. Too bad. I liked a lot of the story. Because of that, I finished the first book and started the second. I think I got around 4-5 chapters in and I just couldn't bring my self to finish it, so I returned it. Their self-righteous, judgements and behaviors of their characters just became over the top. I had to wade through it in the first book to try and salvage the decent story... But it was an effort so I stopped in the second book. Unfortunately, I do not recommend this book series.

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Unique, great storyline... But...

Revisado: 01-30-20

I do think this series is one of the most unique and well written collapse/apocalyptic type books I've read. It does get pretty dark in places, being a little more discriptive than I would care to read. I also was not impressed with how much foul language there was in the third book. I can deal with it, though I don't like it, if it is rare, but for me it was unnecessary in places and too much. That being said, it was really good, with wonderful characters, I didn't want to stop. Really great story.

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Personal dislike for profanity, makes for a poor listen

Revisado: 12-27-19

I didn't finish it... Got to about the end of chapter 2 and stopped listening. It is a shame because as far as I could tell I think I would have enjoyed it. For me personally, when someone uses an abundance of profanity, it feels like they don't have the intelligence to choose other words. I'm sure that's not the case, but it was completely unnecessary and over the top for me. The narrator was very good. Sorry I wasted a credit.

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