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Last Light (Restoration Novel) (Restoration Novel) | 
 enlarge | Author: Terri Blackstock
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House
Category: Book
List Price: £21.50
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2717540
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 11
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6 x 4.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 031026880X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780310268802
ASIN: 031026880X
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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Condition: Brand New. Expected UK delivery in 7-10 business days
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 How Do You Live Without Power? November 6, 2007
Mark Baker (Santa Clarita, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Deni Branning and her father Doug had just landed at the Birmingham airport when the power went out. But it wasn't a normal power outage. Cars wouldn't work and cell phones died as well. In fact, ever piece of modern technology had failed.
The two manage to get home, where they are thrilled to find the four other members of their family waiting for them. But there they realize their problems are just beginning. With no access to the outside world, they don't know what is happening elsewhere. How wide spread is the power outage? How long will it last?
None of this sits well with Deni, who was scheduled to start a new job in Washington DC in a week. Her fiancee is still there, and she desperately wants to get back to him.
But the Branning family has other issues to deal with. Like day to day survival. With no water and no stores, how will they survive?
And things just get worse when Deni and her younger sister find the dead bodies....
This book is absolutely engrossing. I found myself caught up in the scenario, wondering how I would survive if modern technology stopped working. While there were some convenient plot points (their neighborhood is around a lake), it was handled very well. And the murder storyline only added to the intrigue. The story did stall ever so slightly in the middle, however. My bigger complaint is the characters. They are a bit one dimensional most of the time, which did make it easy to spot the villain. Since this is a Christian novel, the Bible is pretty heavily featured at times. Frankly, I loved that aspect of the story.
Even though I didn't feel the characters truly developed, I couldn't stop thinking about the book or the characters. If you want an entertaining read that will make you think, pick up this novel.
 Interesting premise turned into a preachy book August 30, 2007
NoWireHangers (Sweden)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What would happen if there was a worldwide catastrophe that made all electronics useless? That is the premise of "Last Light". It's avery interesting idea, and one that should make for a very good novel. Unfortunately, "Last Light" is a disappointment, considering its promising premise.
We only get to know a few characters, the Branning family and some other people they know. And most of the Brannings are rather annoying characters. The kids spend most their time whining about everything, and the parents are no better, frequently giving long morality lectures. And that's not just a problem for the parent characters but for the book as a whole. It seems that only Christians could come up with the idea to be nice to people and help those in need. And who could imagine something as awful as marrying a nonbeliever? The book spends too much time preaching religion and too little time actually telling the story to be enjoyable. And because it's so preachy it's diffucult to take seriously. If handled well, this could have been both a very entertaining as well as thought provoking novel.
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