Reviews for Life Support

The average rating for Life Support based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-27 00:00:00 Donald Underwood This review has the possibility of turning into a rant about a genre rather than focusing on the book, but I'll try to keep that in check. I haven't read any inspirational (read "inspirational" as "Christian fiction") since leaving home 24 years ago, but my Mom has long been a Christian bookseller as a side business. When I visited her during her cancer treatment she had collected all the books by this author for me to read because he graduated from the institution where I work. I had to read a few, obviously. The problem with Christian fiction (oh here we go, groan) is that it is always trying to do too many things. This novel combines a crime story with a redemption story, trying to address issues of guilt and trust, finding God and finding a relationship. Oh yeah and of course the main female character is talented but lonely, and the male love interest is very spiritual but works with his hands, the quintessential inspirational profile. Is that a Jesus thing? All the blue collar workers that Christian main characters manage to find working on their own in the stereotypical small towns? Jesus symbols? Could we be any more obvious? Okay, okay, sorry. So in one novel, Alexia the lawyer finds God, her piano-playing construction-worker trusts God again for love AND finds a calling for his improvised worship pieces (these chapters are more eye-rolling worthy than the romance), oh yeah and the crime that is supposed to be underpinning the entire novel gets ENTIRELY DROPPED. Okay, not entirely dropped but absolutely none of the story lines come to a close. The author, you see, was planning to write another novel. I threw the book down and had a temper tantrum because I had to read two novels to get the story, and I knew I'd have to or my mother would mail it to me. The line this novel ends with starts out the sequel.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-10 00:00:00 Rudolph Lewis Not since Denise Hildreth Jones's Savannah from Savannah have I been this impressed with the heroine of a book. I believe Alexia Lindale may be my next literary crush. As for the story itself, it was engaging and kept the pages turning. Sure, you have to read the next book to continue the story...but wasn't The Empire Strikes Back the same way? The writing was good, and I look forward to further installments in this series.