The Preview Review. It's one step better than judging a book by its cover.
The Preview
I read the free extended preview, since the author was kindly offering it. I liked it from the very first line; "His books were burning."
They were not, but it did the trick until the true problem could be laid down. The problem is that David Galloway can not die.
He has been living for hundreds of years. However, to thicken the plot, there is a time each year when he under goes a rejuvenation process in which he first rapidly ages. It is a process that seems to suggest that death is in fact a possibility.
To thicken the plot all the more, he meets another like himself just as his rejuvenation season begins.
If you read the regular preview (not the extended, as I have) you will not see any hints of the Christian aspect of this book beyond the title. It comes into play in chapter three When David is in the throws of rejuvenation and prays concerning his anguishing condition.
The Promise
The promise in the description is that David Galloway will have an increasingly more difficult time making the right moral decisions. He will learn timeless secrets that if known would be antithetical to his secluded lifestyle. What does God require of him, and is David strong enough to see it through?
Additional Thoughts
Human immortality is a big problem. I'm not simply referring to the temporal issues, such as the fact that everyone you love died hundreds of years ago, or the need to live a highly secretive life, changing your name, location and friends periodically as not to be found out.
No, I mean, the fact that all of creation is cursed as a result of the fall of man. I mean that the human spirit is eternal and to be absent the body is to be present with the Lord, for the believer anyway. Being trapped in the human body? That is what I call a forever problem.
By the way, I did not get the impression that the book was going to present being trapped in the flesh as a particularly positive thing. But I do wonder to what extent it explores the contrast of eternal life with God and eternal life in the flesh.
I Like the title. No Less Days is an intriguing line from the well known Hymn, Amazing Grace:
When we’ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise Than when we’d first begun.
I hope the book remembers that the title is in reference to endless worship. Wouldn't that be a great way to end a book of this title? David is finally freed from his fleshy prison to find that a forever is still before him, except, without the burden of sinful flesh!
I wonder what will happen to David Galloway? If only I had no less cash... I mean, the price point was to high for me. But maybe not for you.
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