Reviews for When the Day of Evil Comes

The average rating for When the Day of Evil Comes based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-02-06 00:00:00 Beatrixo Kiddo Prior to meeting Peter Terry, psychologist and professor Dylan Foster's biggest worries were dealing with her father's impending remarriage and the start of a new semester at college. However, Dylan's perspective endures a radical shift when she meets Terry at a faculty retreat. The encounter with the gaunt, white-skinned man with a deep, violent horizontal scar on his back leaves Dylan unsettled, but it's not until her well-ordered life begins to spiral out of control that she realizes the full scope of the role Terry is playing in her rapidly unraveling life. Soon Dylan finds herself inexorably drawn into a decades-old web of violence and tragedy, weaving the threads of her life with struggling college students and the dangerous patriarch of a wealthy Chicago family. Demonic warfare has turned her life upside down, and Dylan must scramble to save her life and salvage her career while taking her faith in God to a deeper level in order to survive. The spiritual armor of Ephesians chapter six becomes more than just words on the page to Dylan -- they're her battle plan for survival. I packed this novel in my carry-on for my trip to Chicago last week. In spite of a forty-five minute delay taking off and the flight itself, the time absolutely flew by -- I couldn't put this book down. This is the best novel I've read in quite some time that deals with the issue of spiritual warfare -- in fact, I'd say it stacks up with the best of them, including classics like Frank Peretti's Piercing the Darkness and This Present Darkness. I loved how Wells' focused on Dylan's perspective (as opposed to giving the reader a demon or angel's point of view), particularly her view of the supernatural occurances she encounters. Dylan's character is oh so very real. Wells deals with heavy subjects throughout the novel, but balances these with wonderfully light touch as seen in Dylan's self-deprecating sense of humor. I absolutely loved the hint of a romance between Dylan and the small-town funeral home director (who is just happens to be hilarious). When the Day of Evil Comes is one of those books that has it all -- fast-paced action, crisp dialogue, well-developed characters, and nail biting suspense balanced with a dash of humor. Highly recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-11-22 00:00:00 Julimarie Gresham If you're a Christian, you might like this book as long as you can handle a plot without resolution and a heroine who does nothing but pray and follow her "instincts" without any real thought. If you're not a Christian, it is a fantasy novel with a weak plot and a main character who has very little common sense. When I realized that the author's bio on the back of the book almost identically matched the description of the main character, I was rather disgusted. When I then realized that the majority of this novel was set-up for a sequel and gave no real answers to the questions it proposed, I was annoyed. When the author repeatedly commented on "lumpy people" (I think I found eight derogatory references to overweight people throughout the novel)I was done. Partially because I'm overweight myself (along with 60% of Americans- way to go on insulting a majority of your readers!) but because it was so obviously the author's actual prejudice... since, as I've already noted, the main character IS the author. Not a whole lot of creativity going on there. Basically an autobiography with a weak demon character thrown in. Not a "novel of suspense" as advertised on the cover, but rather a book full of loose ends that are never addressed. Reading this was a waste of my time.