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Miracles, Inc.: A Novel (2011)

by T.J. Forrester(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1439175586 (ISBN13: 9781439175583)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: I've enjoyed reading this one. Though I hate the ending. I love the pacing and I like how the author made the story grow. It tackled a lot of things--religion, faith, morality, love, marriage, relationship, media, justice, friendship, etc. It's not that kind of book that will focus on a single topic from its first up to its last page. Though it tackled quite a few items, it's not messy. Everything is smooth. The smoothness of the story is what made this book cool! As cool as Vernon. Read this book and question everything! Love, religion, faith, the world, God and most of all, your self.
review 2: Forrester teases a cliffhanger-ending from the first page of the story. And even though I caught on that the ending was going to disappoint well before I made it to t... morehe murder scene, for some reason, I kept reading. It’s not that the story is bad. It just reads more like an early release draft or the product of a creative writing student than a paid author published through Simon & Schuster. Maybe I’m being unfair, but if this had been released by a smaller press with (presumably) less man power to throw at the book, I would probably overlook some of the issues I have with it. But that it comes from Simon & Schuster makes the gleaming errors I noticed in the logistics of the story hard to ignore. The easiest to spot is that the amount of money being paid to the extortionist changes WITHIN PAGES of separate mentions. First: “She was correct in thinking I wouldn’t come after her for five thousand a week” (181). A few pages later, the amount changes DRASTICALLY: “…five thousand a month was such a small inconvenience it wasn’t worth worrying about” (193). Now, this may seem like nit-picking. But how trustworthy is a story or author if such silly mistakes are so obvious? This isn’t a typographical or spelling error, which would be more forgivable. It’s an error in reporting concerning a subplot that intersects and creates the major conflict upon which the novel is based. (SPOILER AHEAD) Because it is when the extortionist is revealed that the actions occur that cause Vernon to be incarcerated. Getting the amount of the extortionist had been receiving wrong is a GLARING error. However, most of these gripes are based on a foundation of trusting the narrator – Vernon – to be reliable and honest. And, since he’s in prison for lying about committing the double-murder of two high ranking officials in an organization designed to collectively bilk unsuspecting believers out of millions of dollars, maybe he shouldn’t be considered very reliable in ANY regard? less

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