From
the back cover: “Just because
thirteen-year-old Vero Leland has discovered his true identity doesn’t mean his
life has gotten any easier. Middle
school is humiliating at best, and his training in the Ether – the spiritual
realm that surrounds the earth – has only intensified. Becoming a guardian angel, the fiercest of
warriors, is not for the faint of heart.”
Just
because one CAN write, doesn’t necessarily mean that one SHOULD write. Especially when one’s secular creativity
intrudes upon the sacred.
While
author Laurice Molinari has an impressive curriculum vitae, and while she may
be writing with the best of intentions, her theology (if this is truly what she
believes) stands in need of serious correction.
The bio blurb on the copy that I received for review suggests that this
may truly be the case: “Laurice lives
with her husband and two children in Los Angeles ,
the City of Angels
Angels
are NOT “born,” they do NOT “grow up,” attend middle school, and receive
immunizations. They are ageless
creations of our Heavenly Father, and one cannot forget that ONE THIRD of those
angelic beings rebelled, lead by Lucifer (who, may I remind you, is ALSO a
created being, and was once the chiefest of them all!). It tires me, and saddens me . . . yes, and
even vexes me . . . when a creative imagination oversteps its bounds and boldly
“rushes in where ANGELS fear to tread.”
The
fact that this book is targeted for children in grades 4
– 6 , and is published by Zonderkidz, just makes this book
even more disturbing. To think . . .
hundreds, or even thousands, of our most impressionable minds could be impacted
by this distorted view of angels (an earlier generation would call it heresy)
ought to have caused second thoughts to arise.
In the minds of the author, and the publishers, as well.
2
STARS
PILLARS OF FIRE: Book Two in The Ether Series
Laurice E. Molinari
Zonderkidz
ISBN 978-0-310-73556-4
JUVENILE FICTION / General
356 pages
$16.99 hardcover w/jacket
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