Review: Wonders Never Cease

Wonders Never Cease
by Tim Downs

Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Cost: $9.68

What I Liked:
This was a completely unpredictable story. Every twist of this plot was equally as strange and unexpected as the one before. For a non-thriller, there was an awful lot going on in these pages.

What might seem like an innocuous experience, a little girl telling a "story" during show and tell, turns into a full-fledged parental nightmare. Only both her "parents" aren't being present to her troubles. Her mother's boyfriend, Kemp, has decided to cash in on this little girl's experience, and on the tragedy of another person. And he hopes and prays that no one finds out.

But there's more going on than meets the eye. And I love books like that.

Honestly, it was a little hard to suspend my belief that a publisher and an agent and a writer would all go along with this crazy idea just to make a buck. Especially when they're already making money. I know the writer knows what he's talking about, so I tried to suspend my disbelief, but it just sounded so strange. And the plot about the starlet coming out of her coma... it was... well, again I know it's fiction, so the point is that it didn't really happen. It just seemed really strange.

I didn't really like any of the characters, except Matt--the girl's teacher--and even then, when I first met him, I didn't like him. I kept thinking that Natalie, to be able to stay in a relationship with a guy like Kemp, had to be just an idiot. But the ending was satisfying, and I appreciated that comeuppance was gotten in the end, at least for some of those who deserved it.

All in all, I think the writing is good, and I certainly enjoyed the uniqueness of the plot. It's a good, well-themed, inspirational, nicely-tied-up book to read.

Book Blurb:
It's a brilliant plan, if Kemp McAvoy says so himself--and Kemp never hesitates to point out his own brilliance. Kemp is a night nurse for a beautiful but aging movie star in a medically induced coma. And with the help of her agent and a struggling young publisher, he's concocted a can't-fail scheme that will make them all rich.

Olivia Hayden is about to receive a heavenly visitor--an angel with a message for all humankind. All it takes is a blinding light and little adjustment of her meds, and when she awakes she'll think it was real--and they'll have an instant best-selling book.

The scheme seems foolproof. All they have to do for it to work is be good angels and stay out of trouble. But Kemp McAvoy has never been good at staying out of trouble--and he doesn't realize there may be out-of-this-world consequences for impersonating an angel.

From award-winning author Tim Downs comes this warm-hearted story of mistaken identity and unlikely redemption that will have you both laughing and looking at life from a higher perspective.