Thursday, June 27, 2024

Last Light by Terri Blackstock (Review)

Series: Restoration #1
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Zondervan 
Released: January 1, 2005
367 pages
About the Book:

The first installment in a thrilling series in which a global catastrophe puts a family’s survival at risk—and both reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration. Birmingham, Alabama, has lost all power. Its streets are jammed with cars that won’t start and its airport is engulfed in flames from burning planes. All communications—cell phones, computers, even radios—are silent. Every home and business is dark. Is it a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or something far worse? In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to a time before electricity, the Branning family faces a choice. Will they hoard their possessions in order to survive—or trust God to provide as they share their resources with those around them? Yesterday’s world is gone. Family and community are all that remain. And the outage is revealing the worst in some. Desperation can be dangerous—especially when a killer lives among them.





My Rating & Thoughts:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐


I felt like I was right there with the characters experiencing the total electrical shutdown. I was on edge so many times, wondering what would happen next, and I kept thinking about this situation when I wasn't reading. I like that we are focused on one family in particular with an age span of characters. People react to the circumstances in various ways, and this leads to some dangerous happenings that feel so real. Deni's whining was a little annoying at times, and she made a reckless choice which could have turned out so much worse than it did. There were a couple parts that felt a bit too convenient to be real, but there are times in real life that God works in mysterious ways and nothing is impossible. I enjoyed the way faith was weaved in and how God provided people to help Deni when she really needed it. I have connected with this family, and some of the neighbours, that I am eager to continue to the series to see what happens next.

(I purchased my copy of this book; opinions expressed 
in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)

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