Reviews for Threshold

The average rating for Threshold based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-07-28 00:00:00 Robert Moore What Mr. Myers did well in the previous book, he continues to excel at here. I can't wait to see how the last book brings the two stories together. (A side note: While it didn't affect my opinion of the book, I get the feeling that Mr. Myers despises Garfield; he makes multiple references to a smiling picture of the Tubby Tabby at the clinic where Sarah has her abortion. As a lifelong fan of the cartoon fat cat, I didn't like that; however, the author is entitled to his own opinion.)

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-25 00:00:00 Katelyn Ignatowicz A tiny town in Indiana is the main setting for this paranormal thriller. The funding of Dr. Reichner's research depends on his reports, including an in-person travel to Nepal. While he is away, his research director, Sarah Weintraub attended a country club's awards ceremony where the rivalry between the Techies (those who came into town, driving prices up, working at the Moran Research Institute or other technological companies) and Townies (those who were in the town already, not working at the well-paying jobs) became known. A prank brings Sarah and a Townie named Brandon together, and sets up the other games of chicken that happen throughout the book. We readers know that Brandon bears guilt for his little sister's death; Sarah bears guilt for the abortion that resulted in a hysterectomy and the break-up with her boyfriend. Dr. Reichner knows that Sarah is a work-a-holic and therefore manipulates her in various ways. His trip to Nepal results in a connection with a python and the backer of his Institute. The backer wants a particular person with a high PSI..... Brandon has been experiencing visions (others would call them hallucinations) and eventually they come true. Sarah pushes Brandon to be tested at the Institute; during his test, he passes the Threshold (inter-dimensional out-of-body experience) and nearly dies. Brandon refuses to work with the Institute after that experience. Brandon's visions have happened at his work and at church. Sarah learned the details and begins following up on the occurrences, finding the premonitions to be real. In relaying the information to Brandon, she is upset that Brandon isn't responding as she would like, and steals his truck. This results in the final game of chicken and a bad car accident. Two characters that interact with the main characters are Gladys, a prayer warrior who had visions about Brandon during his infancy, and Lewis, a former subject of the Moran Research Institute. Sarah finds Lewis at Gladys' house; Dr. Reichner convinces Lewis to stop attacking Sarah and kill himself instead in an apparent murder-suicide. Throughout all of this, Brandon has been wrestling (or not) with his faith and family. His father had a stroke that paralyzed him and Brandon lost his trust that prayer works. The climax of the book is where Brandon is resisting the malevolent force/demon inside the church where his father had his ministry. The force is about to suck him in and Brandon loses his grip on a pew and must grab onto the cross that had fallen in the attacks. Between Gladys' pencil drawings, the Bible verses she had pointed out, and other things, the end of the book brings Brandon to the hospital to be with Sarah after her accident, and he is accepting of his designated place as one of the two witnesses in Revelation 11. Par for the course of the 1990's to tie abortion in somewhere, and I felt the symbolism, mostly in the climax of the tension, was "bash one over the head" blatant.