: Prophet
Author: Frank Peretti
I’m not the biggest Peretti fan, but I find him and his work intriguing, and though I’d had this book sitting on my shelf for years, I’d never gotten around to reading it. It was not what I expected. The beginning sets itself up like the (sadly canceled) Eli Stone TV show where the main character has visions and sees the future. Unfortunately, unlike the TV show, where the visions play a key role, here it is almost a side story, as though Peretti didn’t want to scare off readers with too much supernatural stuff and focused more plodding detective work instead. Another sad choice is that the murder involves the controversial topic of abortion, and while Peretti does play it well and fairly and doesn’t preach, it’s just a heavy topic to read over five gazillion pages and many, many hours. Overall, it’s not bad, but just tedious and not interesting enough. It takes until halfway through the book to see where it’s going and though the ending is visible from a hundred miles away, it takes forever to get there. It’s well-done, but a condensed version would work just as well.
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