With a wave of his pen; or rather magnificent clicks of his
keyboard, he sends us into a world of brilliant magic, a universe beyond time
and space, where perfection not only exists but awaits us, cemented in faith,
unsoiled and unaffected by distorted humanity and its sin.
Unlike most of his other darker novels, “Illusion” is filled
with radiance and light. It wows us with
emotional intricacies and complexities of human character and drama.
We are permitted to enter the world of a married couple, a
terrific duo of famous magicians: Dane and Mandy. For forty years they had entertained their
audiences with astonishing tricks in Vegas.
But when time comes for them to finally retire, their plans are
shattered by a horrific car accident, which claims Mandy’s life. Virtually at the same time, hundreds of miles
away a nineteen-year-old Mandy appears, with no memory of the past forty years
of her life and a new set of unexplained abilities. This Mandy never met her husband and yet,
somehow, against all odds, the two are inexplicably drawn to each other, while
strange figures examine their every move.
“Illusion” flows like a song and lights up the darkest
corners of our imaginations. It fills
our minds with endless color and drenches our hearts with never ending excitement. It is exhilarating and thoroughly enjoyable.
If Kinkade was the painter of light, Peretti is the author
of absolute brilliance!
I fell in love with Mandy and Dane from the first page and
subsequently cried through 39 out of 40 pages that followed. I also managed to fill with tears every one
of emotional pits, which Peretti so craftily dug for me throughout the rest of
the novel. I invited the unexplained and
welcomed the invisible, because the love between Mandy and Dane was not just
the romantic, nor the fleeting kind. It
was strong and timeless, rooted in the deepest complexities of our beginnings. It was fervent and pure, steady and firm. It was the reflection of the very vein of
perfection, which flows through us all, attached at every end to the will and
heart of our Heavenly Father.
I mourned with Dane and cheered with Mandy. I laughed with them and wished them in to a
happy ending, sacrificially submitting to the will of the master writer; the
lord over their world and space. I
wanted to peek ahead, but never to skip, because just like in real life, here,
everything mattered and I never wanted it to end!
“Illusion” is a
masterpiece and I believe a perfect tribute to Peretti’s wife, whom undoubtedly
he loves just like this. Oh, to be loved
like this on this side of heaven!
Frank Peretti’s “Illusion” is bound to become an instant
classic and I thoroughly recommend pursuing it.
Read and enjoy, surrender and dive bravely in to his new universe, where
mysterious meets the exquisite and the two combined create a passionate torrent,
which sweeps away our imagination.
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