True Light (Restoration Novel) [Import] [Paperback]

Terri Blackstock (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House; Unabridged edition (March 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310269482
• ISBN-13: 978-0310269489
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Terri Blackstock is a New York Times best-seller, with over six million copies sold worldwide. She has had over twenty-five years of success as a novelist. Terri spent the first twelve years of her life traveling in an Air Force family. She lived in nine states and attended the first four years of school in The Netherlands. Because she was a perpetual "new kid," her imagination became her closest friend. That, she believes, was the biggest factor in her becoming a novelist. She sold her first novel at the age of twenty-five, and has had a successful career ever since.

In 1994 Terri was writing for publishers such as HarperCollins, Harlequin, Dell and Silhouette, when a spiritual awakening drew her into the Christian market. As she was praying about her transition, she went on a cruise and noticed that almost everyone on the boat (including her) had a John Grisham novel. It occurred to her that some of Grisham's readers were Christians, and that if she wrote a fast-paced thriller with an added faith element, she might just find her niche. As God would have it, Christian publishers were showing interest in the suspense genre, so she quickly sold a four-book series to Zondervan. Since that time, she's written over thirty Christian titles, most of them suspense novels.

Besides entertaining her readers, Terri tackles issues that she hopes will change lives. Her recent book, Predator, was inspired by her experiences on Facebook and Twitter, and her concern that people posted too much personal information about themselves. The book deals with an online predator who uses social networks as his playground. She hopes the book will change readers' online habits. Her New York Times best-seller, Intervention, was inspired by her own personal struggles with a daughter on drugs. In the book, a mother hires an interventionist for her drug-addicted daughter. But on the way to treatment, the interventionist is murdered, and the daughter disappears. Barbara, the mother, sets out to search for her daughter. Terri modeled Barbara after herself, and poured many of her own emotions and experiences into that character. As a result, many families experiencing drug addiction have written to thank her for telling their story and giving them hope.

Other recent books include her stand-alone novel Shadow in Serenity, and Vicious Cycle (Book 2 in her Intervention Series). She's also known for popular series such as the Restoration Series, the Cape Refuge Series, the Newpointe 911 Series, and the SunCoast Chronicles series.

Terri has appeared on national television programs such as "The 700 Club" and "Home Life," and has been a guest on numerous radio programs across the country. The story of her personal journey appears in books such as Touched By the Savior by Mike Yorkey, True Stories of Answered Prayer by Mike Nappa, Faces of Faith by John Hanna, and I Saw Him In Your Eyes by Ace Collins.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars She Just Keeps Getting Better, July 13, 2007

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David Brollier "sonburst" (Huguenot, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: True Light (Restoration Series #3) (Paperback)

How a great author like Terri Blackstock can continue to get better and better is somewhat of a mystery to me, and yet that is exactly what I find. With her first book in the Restoration Series (LAST LIGHT) she didn't just kick it up a notch, but bumped it into a different stratosphere. The fact that she has been able to do so for 3 books is a testimony to the way she works. When you see her giving credit to the Lord, right up front, she's right. I really doubt that even she could do this without His help.

TRUE LIGHT continues the saga of a world plunged into darkness because of electrical pulses from a distant star. Nothing electrical works. Stop to think about how many things you depend on that require electricity, then remove it from your life and you'll have an idea of the world these people live in. It's been 8 months since the "lights went out", and it's winter, which I think makes it a great book to read on some of these hot summer days. There are 4 main things that each person needs, food, water, clothing and shelter. This is especially true in winter. Now take away the furnaces that heat homes, the ovens, the kerosene or quartz heaters. Take away a ready food supply. Take away available water. You are left with people hoping they can dress warm enough inside shells of homes that will keep out wind, but not cold, both hungering and thirsting. That's pretty bad. Now suppose someone comes in and shoots a hunter to steal his deer. That's how the book starts out. Now add Mark Green into the mix and the Oak Hollow complainers and you have the makings of a real suspenseful tale. Blackstock could have left it at that and she would have sold millions of copies, but she went on to focus on Mark. As a Christian he had to learn and re-learn to forgive. This leads him into some strange places, such as a clapboard village, like the "Hoover towns" of the past, jail, and more. We find him bringing home a deer, learn of his many inventions, yet at one point find him cleaning toilets.

Terri does what few other authors are capable of doing, get out a great moral teaching while entertaining you with a story. If you haven't read any of her works, the go back and get LAST LIGHT. After reading it I'm sure you'll want to own the whole series.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finding light in the darkness, November 1, 2007

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Deborah "Books, Movies and Chinese Food" (Fairfax, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: True Light (Restoration Series #3) (Paperback)

The Brannings are now into their eight month living in a world without the comforts of electricity, mass communication or technology. After watching how the family tries to adapt to their new way of life, the story now turns towards the ugly side of this new society. What happens to the criminals and prisoners? With the jails full of those who've committed petty crimes to mass murderers, it's getting harder and harder to find those who will watch over these lowlifes. What will happen when the police stop watching and the criminals are allowed to roam around freely with no one to stop them?

This was my favorite book out of the series so far. I think the characters have become more well developed. The Brannings aren't as shallow as they were in the beginning of the series. They finally act as if they want to get along well in this new society they are living in. The scenes in the jail were surprisingly realistic and difficult to read. You really felt for Mark as he chooses to turn the other cheek and ignore the hurtful remarks made by the prisoners. It's also scary to think about a world where criminals run free because we have no means of keeping them separated from society. Very suspenseful reading about the police chief's son wanting to get revenge. What I like best about this series is how much is really makes you think about how we take technology for granted. In the first book, the community is clueless about what to do without electricity. Even simple things like heating water or even using the bathroom are now almost impossible to do. If a situation like this would happen in our world today, I think it's a possibility our country could collapse. How would governments work without communication? It's interesting to think that all the top moneymaking jobs in this country like engineerings or informations technology would be useless. That's when all the jobs like history, geography, and geology would be high demand again. I'm really looking forward to the last book in the series because I want to know if, when and how society will be able to truly function again.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The best of the three I read., April 29, 2009

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Christine H. "soblessed" (,OH,U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: True Light (Restoration Series #3) (Paperback)

This was the best in this series that I read. I returned book #4 Dawn's Light, unread to my library when I saw that it was going to be about that detestable Deni flip-flopping again between her creepy ex-fiance and Mark.I had too much of that to stomach in book 2!

Still too much of Deni's character for my taste in this book,but this was the most interesting of the three.