Angie B. (angjay) reviewed on 4/8/2006 + 122 more book reviews

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In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, Deni Brannings career ambitions have vanished. Shes not about to let her dream of marriage go as well.

But keeping it alive will require extraordinary measures. Yesterdays world is gone. All Deni and her family have left is each other and their neighbors. Their little community will either stand or fall together. But theyre only beginning to realize thatand trust doesnt come easily.

Particularly when one of them is a killer.

Best-selling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human heartsand lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world.
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The first book in Blackstock's Restoration series literally begins with a bang: airplanes fall out of the sky in the opening paragraphs, at which point the novel's protagonists and readers become swept up in a stunning set of circumstances, the import of which slowly sink in as the novel briskly moves forward. Unlike the deluge of dramatic depictions of the end times, in which Christians disappear and the world reacts, this story focuses on a natural phenomenon-albeit one that most of the characters believe is a message from God-that profoundly alters human society. Blackstock's main characters, the affluent Bannings, who live in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, initially react to this disaster by putting themselves first, for fear that any other strategy would endanger their lives. Soon, however, challenged by the Sermon on the Mount, they begin reaching out generously to neighbors. Their nascent attempts at a communal approach to life will likely be picked up in future novels in this series.

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