by Frank Peretti
I liked Illusion but I thought it was a too long and sometime, I felt, the pace dragged a bit. The time-shifting story of two famous, married, magicians was a good premise and kept me guessing. A bit more on the Sci-Fi side than the horror genre but good read. With engaging characters and a “keep yo...
I can't decide if I want to give this 1 star or 4 stars. I think I'm going to go with 2, which is too bad.I enjoyed about 75% of this book, the other 25% annoyed me greatly.The premise was fascinating, and I was invested in the main characters.At one time, I think I probably knew that Peretti was co...
Mandy's death in a car accident means the end of her forty-year career in magic in which she and her husband, Dane, had performed around the world. Or does it? Because Mandy is not dead. She's nineteen again, but nineteen in 2010, not the 1970 she remembers. Mandy struggles to adjust to modern life,...
An AMAZING read. I started this last night before going to bed, and ended up reading through the whole thing today. This is just, well, yeah.There's a lot of sci-fi jargon that makes you want to skip paragraphs, and I found a couple of editorial errors, but the overall writing is pretty consistent...
In one sense, books are like cakes--the recipe may be more enticing than the taste. Magic, time travel, mature love and teenage confusion (strange mix, but Peretti made it work without being too creepy), mad scientists, doves, etc. Decent writing for the most part, but too choppy and disjointed at t...