Saturday, June 28, 2014

I Need Some Help Here by Kathi Lipp

Oh, what parent hasn't been where the title leads?


Have you ever felt overwhelmed as a parent? Of course you have, if you haven't then we need to figure out what aliens have taken over your body.

This book will help you overcome your anxiety, fear and doubts about your parenting.

Lipp will give you some authentic encouragement - not the empty, shallow stuff of other "inspirational" reads.

Ultimately, you are not alone - you aren't a bad parent and this journey is a multi-emotional trip.

Chapters will tackle issues such as: kids who fall away from God, kids who are bullied, kids who feel like they are different from their peers and many other issues parents lie awake at night pondering.

This book was provided for review, at no cost, by Revell Publishing.

Hacker by Ted Dekker

Hacker is the next book of the Outlaw Chronicles series.


It focuses on a hacker named Nyah who needs money to finance medical research to save her mom. When a hacking job goes wrong, Nyah finds herself in the cross-hairs of a giant corporation wanting nothing more than her silence at any cost.

I have really enjoyed Dekker's Outlaw books. Eyes Wide Open was a fantastic return to his mind-twisting style that made him famous. Water Walker was absolutely phenomenal. I couldn't put it down and it made me think about life in brand new ways.

Hacker began in that same vein. It deals with some of life's biggest questions and attempts to answer them in electronic fashion. Some truly mind-shattering concepts are explored with this book.

The plotting is typical fast-paced Dekker and the characters are quick.

This is a tremendous book until the end. It felt like this should have been a longer novel. I felt like Dekker needed more pages to flesh out some of the concepts that were really going well. Instead it seemed like the end needed to happen and everything happened too fast to tie things up.

We had some great storytelling happening, I was flipping through the pages and all of a sudden we get, "and they all lived happily ever after" What?!?! What about....and you can go through a list of everything that needed more time to be fleshed out but couldn't because of time constraints apparently.

These books are terrific reads. I just wanted more time in Hacker.

This book was provided for review, at no cost, by Worthy Publishing.