Two magicians, Mandy and Dane Collins, have had a good run. With a fatal car accident, Dane will never see his wife again.
That is until he runs into a girl, trying her hand at magic on the streets, who looks eerily like Mandy when she was younger.
This book is rough going. Everything about it is slow - until the final climactic conflict. Your imagination will have to work overtime as you try to comprehend Peretti's time-travel explanation and the endless descriptions of each magic trick young Mandy performs in a coffee shop then in Las Vegas.
How many times do we have to read about repeated tricks? It got old.
The explanation of what's going on comes as a breath of fresh air. It occurs just before most readers would give up on the story.
You won't find an overt "Christian" message in this story until the afterward explaining what the story meant to Peretti. This is fine with me. I don't need to read, "Jesus loves me this I know" from every Christian author.
(Ted Dekker taught me that)
Peretti will have his fans for this book. It's good to see him back at the writer's desk. I just hope the editor(s) will have more sway over the layout and excess of the story next time.
This book was provided for review, at no cost, by Howard Books.
