"The Brotherhood" Book Review

"The Brotherhood" is a Christian novel written by Jerry B. Jenkins. If you are familiar with the author, he is the writer of "Left Behind" series and his work has really stricken and enlightened a lot of people, christians and non christians alike including myself. Many of his books have entered the New York Times Best Sellers, and yea, his productions are definitely worth a read.

This time around, "The Brotherhood" is a cop story that talks about a young and excelling policeman, Boone Drake, losing his family to a horrible fire while he was on the peak of his career. He was devastated and he was angry with God that he refused to talk to Him at first. Nevertheless he didn't go for the destructive side in his life but rather he created routine in his daily life to protect him from getting hurt again. God is always wonderful that in the end, through persisting brothers, friends and also chances in the department, he found his way back to God.

Food for thought

Personally, I find this book rather fascinating. The doubts and anger that Boone had were depicted so strikingly realistic in the book that they actually resonated with mine sometimes. I suppose there's no disagreement that we doubt and get mad at God at times in our lives, especially when things go wrong or things just don't go our ways. We resolved to numbness (like what Boone did), anger, outbursts, tears, and even rejection of care and love from people around us while allowing ourselves to be drown in sorrow.

But then, the author reminded us that God allows us to "have our temper" and He waits for us to come back to Him no matter how or when. He cares, that's all that matter. As long as we choose to seek Him, He accepts. I suppose the author also suggested one thing, that it's alright to be "human" with all the weaknesses. God didn't expect us to be perfect since the beginning right? He accepts our weaknesses and flaws all the time. So especially to the Christians, there's no need to put up the "holy and strong" mask, it's alright to receive cares and love from other brothers and sisters sometimes. :)

I received a complimentary copy (ARC) from Tyndale House Publishers.