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April 2018 Reading Wrap-Up

Overall, it was a good reading month.  Four of the books pictured above got solid five star ratings. One of the books, though, was just dreadful.  Let's get the book I least enjoyed out of the way first. I was so looking forward to this book. On the back cover there's a blurb comparing it favorably to the The Left Behind series, which I quite enjoyed when it read it back in the late 90s/early 2000s.  Even better, this one took the story into space, which completely appeals to the science fiction and fantasy lover in me.  Yes, this should have suited me very well. Unfortunately, it was just not for me.  I had a lot of issues with the one dimensional representations in this book.  I also found the Christians in this book to be, well, not very Christ-like.  My unfavorable impression of this book is disappointing because I have it's sequel sitting in my TBR pile and, despite the promising premise, I fear I will be disappointed once again if I dare to pick it up. Okay, e