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BOOK REVIEW: The Restorer
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: The Restorer Author: Sharon Hinck Publisher: NavPress ISBN: 1-60006-131-1 Genre: Inspirational/Fantasy
Susan Mitchell is a frustrated, harried housewife and mother who would give anything if she could occasionally get away for a few minutes. She loves her family, but she needs time to herself. Mark, her husband, fixes her a hideaway in their attic, but the first time Susan goes up there she hears voices. Trying to overcome her anxiety, she rummages through boxes of odds and ends. She is holding a plastic sword when the air becomes thick with pressure. The attic crackles with electricity, and then it explodes.
Immediately Susan is in another country, another era…another world. And she’s in trouble. It seems to be some sort of medieval world, but while some people worship the One, and Him only, evil walks the land. Susan is greeted as a Restorer, although she hasn’t a clue what that means. She has her plastic sword with her, which has been miraculously transformed into a real one. She’s taking lessons and is getting fairly proficient with her sword, but she’s confused by the customs and messes up a lot. She wonders how the One could have chosen her to restore anything. If she had the power to change things, she’d find her way home.
This is a new type of story than previous ones I’ve read by Sharon Hinck. It’s deeper, more compelling, with a powerful message of faith. Like Susan, we never know how God plans to use us. We just have to trust and do the best we can. Susan Hinck is a good writer, who just keeps getting better.
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