Friday, August 26, 2011

Rooms by James L. Rubart

Wow, not sure what I want to say about this book that I just finished up?  I guess I will start with my first anticipation....

Rooms was toted as being similar to "The Shack".  I loved "The Shack"!  In fact I think during the time that book was in my hands all I wanted to do was read it and nothing else.  It was fantastical (fantastic, fantasy, mystical - all rolled into one word).  When I happened across Rooms at the bookstore, it was the cover that first drew me in.  Yes, I am one of those people who judge books by their cover! :)  The cover appears that the story will be foreboding, possibly filled with turbulence.  After reading the backcover and reading over the "Praise for Rooms" contained in the first couple of pages, I was anxious to open the book up and dive in.

The story line  was intriguing, it captured me fairly quickly.  However, somewhere midway in this book the overwhelming preachiness and really hard to believe types of  things going on in the story started irking me a bit.  By the time I was finishing the last 100 or so pages, I just wanted to finish reading the book and be done. 

There are aspects about Rooms that I really enjoyed, but it is so overwrought in what I think of when I think of crazy tele-evangelists that it lost a whole lot of glamour the longer the story went on.  This is just one for you to decide for on your own if you want to pick it up.  I'd advise to read online reviews prior though.  You will find 5-star raving reviews and 1-star critiques, whichever your heart leans more towards will decide if you want to read Rooms.  I'd say both the 5-star and 1-star type reviews are accurate, it's just a preference to what extent and lengths you want to have Christianity in your fictional literature.  For me this was too much.

I will include a link to the author's webpage that you visit by clicking the photo of the front cover to the left of this blog post. 

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