“SIZZLE-FLASH”
He’d practically
disappeared. “big…happy… family…”
And then he was
gone.
I looked back to
Jenny. She took a deep breath and let it out. And then another. The good news
was everything in her room had turned back to normal. The bad news was it would
be the last normal either of us would experience for a long long time.
Genre: Adventure/Humor
Target Audience: Boys 11-16
Subjects: Spiritual Warfare, Family
Relationships, Love
Summary: “Your tickets are purchased
and your passports are in the mail.” With that one sentence, twins Jake and
Jen’s whole life changed. Their dad has barely spent any time with them. He’s
been overseas doing his scientific projects while their mom raises them. But
their mom has died and all of a sudden their dad has decided they should be
together. So off they go to Israel,
to a dad they don’t really know, his sort of time machine project, his rather
odd crew (including a troublesome monkey), and his enemy who is determined to
steal his project. Normal
is now a thing of the past and crazy insanity is now their life!
Notes: This is the first in the Truth
Seekers, a series about twin seventh graders, their dad and the machine he
invented to allow people to see and experience events from the Bible as if the
person were really there. There are some strong elements focused on the family
relationship since the twins’ dad hasn’t ever really known them. It isn’t until
the climax of the book that they realize he actually does love them. The
strongest element is the spiritual warfare. Whenever the machine runs, Jen
experience horrid visions and someone says an evil being is actually
terrorizing her but that as a Christian she has authority over the evil ones.
She has to go through a couple more trials before her faith grows enough for
her to try to confront it though. Through the aid of the machine, the
characters do get to witness a Bible event as well.
This
book is strongly aimed at those wanting humor in their stories. Lots of comical
disasters occur, providing plenty of adventure and entertainment in the story.
Spiritual Content
Recommendation Scale: 4.5/5
Reviewer: J:-)mi
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