“Here you have the ingredients for a perfect book. You have a perfect town, perfect people, perfect priest, and perfect religion. Yes this is a fluffy extreme fictional work. If you want a light read, this is your book. If you want religion, this is your book. It has a jewel thief who becomes a religious icon, a homeless man that leads with the banner of Christ simplicity, and some really bad dognappers that are drug dealers. You also have a sick man who is miraculously cured of pneumonia with prayer, a woman with a fatal heart condition who gets a new heart through prayer, and a cop who gets shot but survives with his love at his side. You also have a priest with a sudden and extreme diabetic condition that gets worse as he falls in love with a perfect woman. The author presents a somewhat long but entertaining story with characters she fleshes out well. The negative to me is that it is too too too perfect. If you are looking for affirmation of the perfect faith, this is your book, but I pull one line out from the book that struck me with significance - "Do not look at what the Christians do, look at what Christ does." I give the long book a four because it did make me think about my own belief in the power of thought. I might read the sequels because you cannot help but like the characters like Dooley (Opie of Mayberry RFD) and the dog Barnabas. The priest is fairly human at times. But I will not read a sequel to quickly because like the diabetic priest, I can't handle too many sweet sugary stories at one sitting.”
