The Shack by Wm. Paul Young

Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

My Review:
I was excited to win this extended edgy metaphor in a giveaway because there has been so much buzz about it. I started reading it, and then put it aside after only two chapters when some other titles caught my eye. Finally, I picked it back up and began reading it from the beginning. Although it's not a lengthy book--only 246 pages--it is wordy. I found it dragged a bit. It is a book of fantasy.

The most important thing about Christian Fiction is that it be biblically correct. This book isn't. For example, the protagonist is having a conversation with the Trinity about which of them is the greater. Jesus speaks:

"Does that make sense to you, Abba? Frankly, I haven't a clue what this man is talking about?"

[God answers]"... Nope, I have been trying to make head or tail out of it, but sorry, he's got me lost." (p 121-22)

God doesn't understand what man is asking? That's not in the Bible I read!

Again on page 182, Jesus waffles when asked if all roads lead to Him and responds, "... I will travel any road to find you."

In John 14:6, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." It couldn't be any clearer than that.

If you think that you can read this like you would read a Harry Potter book, then it might be the book for you. But that's all it is--a work of fantasy--not a work of Christian Fiction.