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BOOK REVIEW: Expiration Date
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by Jeremiah McNabb Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Expiration Date Author: Eric Wilson Publisher: Waterbrook Press ISBN: 1578567459 Genre: Inspirational/Suspense
Expiration Date. Those two words lead us to throw out cartons of milk and quarter loaves of bread. However, when you pick up Eric Wilson’s sophomore novel and see those two words across the top, resist the impulse. Failing to hang on to Expiration Date could be the worst mistake of the year!
Clay Ryker has lost his fortune, his family and perhaps, his mind. Wickedly playful notes from foes and an unprecedented ability to know a person's final day on this earth, push Clay down a road which forks into pathways of either deliverance or destruction. Whether Clay will turn to the left, or to the eternal right, depends on how smart and how selfless he can become. It isn't only his life that is on the line anymore.
Wilson’s characters have seemingly total independence from the author and the reader. They come and go as they please, and each one has a specific identity. You love one and want to throttle another. And it is this diversity that makes glorious Gordian knots out of the story, leaving the reader to untie them, page by page.
If Eric Wilson built houses, I'd be telling you about a Victorian mansion. If he were a composer, this would be his Magnum Opus. But just as describing a house or a piece of music does not allow you to see or hear them, describing Expiration Date does not begin to display Wilson's ability to write. You must read it for yourself.
Expiration Date , the follow-up to Dark To Mortal Eyes, is a novel as edgy as any pair of scissors with characters that stick with you long after the heroes and villains go home to your bookshelf. Get it. Read it.
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