Book Review: Life Everlasting

Life Everlasting by Robert Whitlow
ISBN: 978-0849943751
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Retail: $14.99

Darkness loomed, but the music--and the flickering light--persisted. Then grew stronger.
The music stopped, the room emptied, and Baxter Richardson opened his eyes for the first time in months. He should have died from his involuntary plunge off a cliff. But he's alive, and mortal danger remains. Familiar enemies stalk him. New ones hover close at hand.
Meanwhile, haunted by accusing apparitions and the tightening dragnet of criminal investigation, Baxter's wife, Rena, is losing her patience. And quite possibly her mind.
Caught in the middle of it all is Alexia Lindale, a lawyer forced to find her way through deceptive alliances, uncertain romances, and courtroom intrigue. It's a struggle of life and death...and life everlasting.

Book #2 in the Santee series, this picks up where the first book, Life Support, left off. Baxter Richardson is in a coma. Rena, his wife, is possibly losing her mind. There’s confusion about the motives of Jeffrey, Baxter’s brother, as well as his father, Ezra. Rena’s lawyer, Alex Lindale, is growing more confused by the day.

You have to read the first book in order to know what is going on! I don’t know how/why I keep picking the second in a series. This one though is quite confusing without the background from the first book.

Without having read the first book, I didn’t know what was going on when I started this book. I felt like I turned on the tv in the middle of a long movie. But the writing is done well enough that, even though I was not ‘in the loop’, I wanted to continue reading. It is an easy flowing style of writing. Even the intense scenes seemed to be mellow.

There is a definite spiritual underlying- well I suppose it isn’t even underlying. It is out in the open with Ted Morgan, the music minister for a local church, and Sarah Locklear, a nurse attending to Baxter, working through music to bring about a change in Baxter’s condition that can be called a miracle and bring glory to God. There are enough characters to keep it interesting (not quite to the point of being too much) and the relationships are interesting to watch unfold and change.

Of course I won’t tell you the ending- I’m not a spoiler (generally *wink*)- but I thought it was an okay book. I wouldn’t mind reading the first book to see what it was that I missed. On a side note, I’m not sure if I was supposed to feel pity for Rena Richardson or to dislike her but I found myself very annoyed to say the least.

I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review from Booksneeze. I was not required to write a positive review.