Soul’s Gate–LitFuse Blog Tour

About Soul's Gate:
 
Book 1 in the Well Spring series.

"Every now and then we get a break from reality. A glimpse into the other world that is more real than the reality we live in 99 percent of our days. The Bible is about a world of demons and angels and great evil and even greater glory."

What if you could travel inside another person's soul? To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds. To help set them free to step boldly into their divinely designed future.

Thirty years ago that's exactly what Reece Roth did. Until tragedy shattered his life and ripped away his future.

Now God has drawn Reece out of the shadows to fulfill a prophecy spoken over him three decades ago. A prophecy about four warriors with the potential to change the world . . . if Reece will face his deepest regret and teach them what he has learned.

They gather at a secluded and mysterious ranch deep in the mountains of Colorado, where they will learn to see the spiritual world around them with stunning clarity-and how to step into the supernatural.

Their training is only the beginning. The four have a destiny to pursue a freedom even Reece doesn't fully fathom. But they have an enemy hell-bent on destroying them and he'll stop at nothing to keep them from their quest for true freedom and the coming battle of souls.
 
Link to buy the book: http://ow.ly/eGyGA

Meet Jim:

James L. Rubart is a professional marketer, speaker, and writer. While being the owner of Barefoot Marketing certainly keeps him on his toes, his passion is writing fiction.

Rubart is an ECPA best-selling author who has been positively reviewed by both Publisher's Weekly and Romantic Times. His first novel, Rooms, won a Best Books 2011 award from USA Book News, as well as a Romantic Times Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Award. His debut release was followed by Book of Days and The Chair. Soul's Gate is Rubart's fourth release.

In addition to being an author, Rubart is also a photographer, guitarist, professional speaker, golfer and semi-pro magician. With all of this, he says that he barely sleeps. Rubart lives with his wife and sons in the Pacific Northwest.

Find out more about Jim at http://jimrubart.com/. 

My thoughts:

Honestly, I’m not even sure what prompted me to choose this book to review. It’s nothing like I normally read or would normally read. It is steeped in spiritual mysticism, if that’s the right terminology. There are so many references to secular movies throughout this book, like Matrix and Inception to name just two. And not just are there references, the descriptions in some of the scenes of the book could have come out of the movies.

I’ve found the book to be difficult to read- it’s bothered me on a few levels. It’s made me uncomfortable because it portrays going into the souls of people. It focuses on experiences and feelings to a great extent. I think it would make an awesome movie but without the references to Jesus. I have a very difficult time mixing ‘magic’ with Christianity. The book does a really good job of making one think about certain ‘magical’ happenings in the Bible but I find the rest be just so outrageous and not compliant with Christianity. It’s a good thing it is fiction.

I can’t truly say that I’ve liked the book. To read a ‘good story’ is one thing but I think I need to guard my heart better from now on.

There are others who received the book and are on the tour- have a look at their reviews here.

***Disclaimer: I received this book free in exchange for an honest review and participation in the blog tour from LitFuse. All opinions are definitely my own. See Disclosure/Policies.