I’m a week late for this review because my wonderful husband took us on an amazing trip to Isla Mujeres, Mexico for our 5th anniversary. So if i had known when I got the invite for this tour that we would be gone, I wouldn’t have signed up for a review. But its okay! I got to read most of the book during our flights there and back. I’m not usually one to read much of the scifi-ish, “what if?” novels, but this caught my interest when I saw the tour invite and figured it was time to get the genre a chance. I have enjoyed this story thus far.
This is a story about a young woman, Abigail Caldwell, who has been in a secluded area of the jungle most of her life with her missionary parents and living with a tribe they joined to minister. She leaves her tribe to search for medical help because the people of her tribe have been extremely ill and are dying off. She is not supposed to associate with anyone outside of her tribe due to some sort of laws that the government enforced years earlier. She ends up being found in her canoe, passed out, by a doctor, Kate Sampson, and is taken to a medical center to be checked out. Abby informs Dr. Sampson of her tribe and their condition and convinces Sampson to take her back to her tribe to try to save them, only to find they have all died of this mysterious disease. Upon returning to Dr. Sampson’s home, they find a video file from Abby’s grandparents from many years earlier, and learn via the video that Abby is the last surviving Christian. Abby’s grandparents believe that she is the last and only hope for the spiritual survival of the American people and that God has called her to go to the states to share the gospel.
I have yet to finish this story but am excited to get to it and find out what happens in this futuristic story of the possible fate of Christianity. My husband is more one to think of the “what ifs?” and how technology and science may effect Christianity in the future, but after being with him for 5 years, i’ve grown to enjoy the sci fi genre more and more.
About This Book
In the future, it’s possible to live forever—but at what cost?
A.D. 2088.
Missionary daughter Abigail Caldwell emerges from the jungle for the first time in her thirty-four years, the sole survivor of a mysterious disease that killed her village. Abby goes to America, only to discover a nation where Christianity has completely died out. A curious message from her grandfather assigns her a surprising mission: re-introduce the Christian faith in America, no matter how insurmountable the odds.
But a larger threat looms. The world’s leading artificial intelligence industrialist has perfected a technique for downloading the human brain into a silicon form. Brain transplants have begun, and with them comes the potential of eliminating physical death altogether—but at what expense?
As Abby navigates a society grown more addicted to stimulating the body than nurturing the soul, she and Creighton Daniels, a historian troubled by his father’s unexpected death, become unwitting targets of powerful men who will stop at nothing to further their nefarious goals. Hanging in the balance—the spiritual future of all humanity.
In this fast-paced thriller, startling near-future science collides with thought-provoking religious themes to create a spell-binding “what-if?” novel.
You can download the first chapter here.
Watch a short video about the book here.
This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group
