Item: The Miracle Maker and the Misfits
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BOOK REVIEW: The Miracle Maker and the Misfits by Dixie Koch

The Miracle Maker and the Misfits by Dixie Koch
Published by Revival Waves of Glory Ministries on May 5th 2017
Genres: Fiction, Religious
Pages: 296
Source: Book Crash
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"Abby." She felt his hand gently touching her shoulder. "Mom was murdered."

"Charley!" Abby screamed, shooting off her chair. "Charley, what are you saying?" Her lips were spread thin in panic.

"Abby, I can tell you no more now, except that my father is a very dangerous man. For now we could all be in danger."

After years of separation, Julie had found peace and was excited to come home and be reunited with her crazed son, Charley, and her now grown sister, Abby.

But Julie never made it home.

When the shocking news of Julie's death forced Abby to her sister's burial, all of Abby's dreams laid in that pine box along side of Julie. Their childhood days remained locked up inside of Abby and in the journals Julie had left behind.

But Abby doesn't have much time to grieve, because when the Miracle Maker comes to the rural backwoods of Perjure County, he sets the young Charley free from legions of demons and ushers in a battle between light and darkness. Abby, a writer for the Edge Water Times, is assigned to follow this story, but she has no idea what this story will cost her.

Heart-shocking suspense follows Abby as she uncovers the truth of Julie's death. As a sinister plot develops and controversy explodes, John, an old mysterious hero of yesteryears, steps back into Abby's life. He and his friends are big believers in the Miracle Maker.

But, who is powerful enough to unlock Abby's heart and help her to believe for a miracle? Who cares enough to rewrite hope into the script of her miserable life?

Find out in The Miracle Maker and the Misfits.

I really like books with a supernatural suspense story line. These themes in Christian Fiction have the potential to truly bring to life the very real battle between good and evil that goes on around us, and within us, all the time. It’s easy, as Christians, to forget that there is so much more to our spiritual lives than fellowship, worship, praise, and prayer. There’s a bigger reason behind our habits and patterns of these things. The ultimate spiritual battle that is taking place over our souls, over Us. There are too few books out there that address this very real aspect of our daily battle and struggle with Satan. And fewer still who do so well.

This book has all the bones of an amazing supernatural suspense book. It delved into so big topics, some heavy topics, and some topics that might be upsetting or triggering for some readers. There is threads of domestic abuse (physical and sexual) as well as child sex trafficking and pedophiles. These things are not blatantly spelled out but they are there. That being said, it leads to one of the smaller issues of this book. It felt disjointed. There was a piece of this and a part of that and it felt like it was a tad all over the place. I feel like the author wanted to tackle this ginormous issue of real life but didn’t set enough ground work to make it truly work. I almost feel like with more depth and more world building and more pages (or even potentially another book to the mix) this has so much potential to fill in all those gaps.

The other part I want to talk about is the faith and spiritual aspect of this book. The messages of grace and salvation were very strong in this book. They were so on point, to the fact that the message about Jesus saying ‘it is finished’ on the cross and being interpreted in different ways. It really made me think. Perhaps I’ve been blessed to never have experienced a church family like was portrayed here, with the refusal to believe that God no longer works miracles. That passage really stuck with me. That being said at times I felt like I was being preached at instead of taught and guided and even preached to. (There is a HUGE difference between at and to.) While I did like this book, I didn’t love it. It has potential for love however so I know that out there are those that will love it and I hope I can do my small part to get this book into their hands.