Dove Strong, book 1
Erin Lorence
Christian fantasy
YA or New Adult near future
Released April, 2019
Books 2 & 3 coming in June and August
Watershed Books, an imprint of Pelican Ventures LLC
$5.99
$16.99
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About the Book
Dove Strong loves God. She loves standing chin up and fists
clenched when facing Satan's attacks. But there's one thing she doesn't
love—other people. So when this spiritually-gifted, antisocial teenager is
chosen to join other believers in a trek across Satan's territory, rattlesnakes
and evil-intentioned Heathen aren't her biggest challenges.
But failure isn't an option. In a month, the Christian
Councils will decide the Reclaim, a vote on whether there'll be a war between
Christ's followers and Satan's to take back America. It is up to Dove, God's
messenger for peace, to reach her Council in time. Because if she doesn't,
things could get bloody.
My review
In a near future fantastical setting where Christians are
outcast, relegated to hide in the treetops, under the earth, or even in plain
sight, Satan has power on Earth. The title character, teenage Dove, is the
chosen one for the Strong family’s seven-year interval mission to take the all-important
vote to the Council on whether to go to war. It’s a perilous journey from which
many who attempt it never return.
God seems to have “handed out spiritual gifts with more of
an open hand,” Dove says in her somewhat cynical first-person voice, one of
many observances in this clever novel geared for young adults. Except that
Satan has it in for this girl, and she’s going to need all the help she can get
from other members of her Christian family to make it to the Council. Teamed
with a reluctant girl from a neighboring underground-dwelling family, Melody,
the tree-dwelling Dove must count on Melody’s danger-sensing gift along with
her own ability to hear the voice of the Lord to keep them safe.
Dove and Melody encounter myriad confusion in the world of
the Heathen, including the United Church of America. How could this be? But her
greatest fears may be realized when she meets Heathens and gets a reputation
for being a Heathen-lover. Filled with lovely language like spider-leg
eyelashes, trilling voices, and suffering that wraps around Dove’s skull so
tight she can’t think, this novel will make every reader consider the depth of
faith which calls us.
God is still speaking when all else fails. Lorence has
painted a vivid picture of a possibility when Christians with their
one-way-to-salvation views are outlawed as perpetrators of hate crimes in a
tolerant near future. But the Christians are still people with vastly different
views on war and peace, defense and offense. When Dove’s certainly of a
peaceful answer clashes with those who believe holy war is the only way to be
free, how can anyone win? Dove Strong is the first of a planned trilogy with
books 2 and 3 releasing yet this summer. While the reader isn’t dropped off a
cliff at the end, you will want to read the stories that follow.
About the Author
As a young child, I fell in love with reading and with Jesus
Christ. Over the years, my passion for both has grown. Currently living in
Western Washington with my husband and two daughters, I’m excited to share with
readers my first young adult Christian fiction, the Dove Strong Trilogy. https://www.erinlorence.com
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