About this title: In Piercing the Darkness, Sally Beth Roe, a young loner, a burn-out, a kind of "leftover hippie", finds herself caught in the middle of bizarre events, fleeing for her life while trying to recall her dark past.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Living Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780842363723ISBN:0842363726
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Great copy! Very nice inside and out EXCEPT for spine creases. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 576 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Crossway Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780891075271ISBN:0891075275
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has moderate wear, previous owner's name on front end page, pages are otherwise unmarked. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 439 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Crossway Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780891075271ISBN:0891075275
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Excellent condition. Very light edge and corner wear. No marks. Tight binding. Tanned pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 439 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Crossway Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780891075271ISBN:0891075275
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, small bend on corners of cover, tiny marks on side edge, light aging to pages, stk #2204u9. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 439 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good. 0891075275 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Crossway Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780891075271ISBN:0891075275
Description: Good. No Jacket. Creasing on covers, spine and corner worn, edge wear, some pages creased and dog eared, text is clean and unmarked. read more
"This is one of the few fiction christian books I've read, I enjoyed it the good/evil spirits that shape peoples lives and how prayer can really change your life and prevent the evil spirits from winning."
"This sequel was just as exciting as the first book and deals with a subject that is becoming an increasing problem and that is the encroachment of anti Christian bias in our schools. The quasi-religious activities such as using a mantra or acquiring a spirit guide are being practiced in our public schools and are not benign exercises in values clarification. In areas where there are no Christian schools, or other alternatives, people are turning more and more to homeschooling.
The small church school in this story is being attacked by an ACLU type organization. The lawyers seize the opportunity to involve themselves in the school because the mother one of children in the school is receiving Federal day-care funds. The organization wants to set a precedent for interfering with religious schools. This could easily be tomorrow's headlines.
The plot has several threads and the author weaves them in and out to keep the action moving, but they all dovetail at the end. One of the most interesting ideas is that the angelic host cannot fight unless there is enough "prayer cover" and that demonic activity can thwart the angels by spreading gossip and strive within the Christian community."
"I just finished reading this book. It was absolutely riveting. Peretti even outdid himself. I decided to go back and read This Present Darkness again before reading this one, for comparison's sake.
This story revolves around another small town named Bacon's Corner that is being overtaken by evil. A woman named Sally Beth Roe stars along with a man named Tom Harris, but they follow parallel storylines, tied together but unknown to one another--at least at first. Our heroes, Marshall Hogan and Bernice Krueger, make their way back onto the scene, with Marshall's wife Kate playing a more active role than in Ashton.
I love how Peretti starts the story out with tons of action and confusion but then slowly brings some order out of it without telling all. Although we, as readers, are able to see from many different characters' perspectives, including the angels and demons, Peretti ably conceals the tortuous route that the story takes us through. And even though we can guess the end--good prevails over evil--we are driven to find out HOW good will prevail over evil. At so many points in the story, impossible situations occur, things get bleaker by the second, evil's grip become a chokehold . . . and yet, we continue to root for good to triumph SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY. Peretti does not fail his readers.
"Loved reading this book back in high school. Opened my eyes to possibilities in the spiritual realm that I had not seen/considered before. Very cool."
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