A review by nessa_arandur
Piercing the Darkness by Frank E. Peretti

1.0

This is like watching the Satanic Panic reemerge in real time. While it was a well-written book, it really can't be ignored that some Christians (especially in the USA) read this and think that invisible "spiritual" warfare it portrays is actually happening. No surprise then that the woman in this story is a dirty sinner who murdered her own child - gasp! But isn't it amazing how the authors didn't make her already a Christian like Deana Laney who believed that God had told her the world was going to end and "she had to get her house in order," which included killing her children. Or Dena Schlosser, who wanted to "give her children to God". Or Matthew Taylor Coleman, who believed his his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter were evil and would bring about the end of the world so he shot them in the chest with a spear gun. Instead she is a terrible sinner who ultimately accepts Jesus and gets forgiven etc etc. If this story was just standing on its own, it would be interesting, but it's impossible at this point to ignore that it feeds into some people's actual ideas of what is real and what is not. That makes it, if anything, very sad and disturbing.