Crockett Grey is a school teacher with the unfortunate
tendency of mourning his deceased daughter at the bottom of a bottle of liquor.
When one of his female students arrives at his house in the dead of night,
terrified and begging for help, those memories of his daughter compel him to
help her. This simple of act of help drags him into a world of false
accusations, physical assault, and political and religious intrigue.
I read this book quite a while ago and meant to write a
review, but then so much happened and the next thing I know, it’s months later
and I find this book on my desk covered in papers and pencils and pens and
sticky notes. So I figured that it’s about time that I posted a review.
I make a point to request books that are of Christian writing.
And that’s why I requested The Canary
List. However, after reading it I found it very difficult to categorize as
Christian Fiction. It does has some Christian influence in it, but mainly it
just felt like “Catholic bashing”. Not exactly sure how I feel about that, but
I do know that it wasn’t one of my favorite books I’ve ever read.
I’m trying really hard not to tell you guys much about this
books, because I think that you should all go out and read it and come up with
your own opinions! But, if you were to really beg me to tell you what I thought
about it, I would say that I give it a 3.5 out of 5. Even though I didn’t like
that it wasn’t very Christian even though it was advertised as such, it was
still a great fiction story. There, how’s that?
So are you going to go read it? I think you should!
I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah
Publishing Group for this review.
