The Soulbane Illusion

It's true: one can be a great novelist and a great Christian writer, at the same time! Norman Jetmundsen has proven it again (see his first book, The Soulbane Stratagem). The Soulbane Illusion adeptly and fairly bridges the background from the first novel, setting the stage and identifying the main characters right up front so that the reader is not spending time trying to "connect the dots" if she or he hasn't read Jetmundsen's first novel.That accomplished well, the plot begins to mature with the ease and fluid movement that writers far more seasoned rarely accomplish. This quality keeps the reader from finding a place on the nightstand or end table to place the book before it's complete. It at once engages the reader but with subtely.It would display the essence to speak in specifics and to do that could spoil the fun/fear of the read, but the former Oxford Uni student Cade Bryson, having married his British sweetheart, lives through experiences not uncommon to our own lives: a theme that captivates the reader for any of us could be Racheal, or Cade. The gut-wrencher is that so many of our friends or aquintenances could be living the duality of lives of the construction company czar Zac , or that we overlook the angels in our presence protrayed by the gentle Englishman Neville, or that a trusted friend to whom we go for advice and counsel in the end is an illusion.Rarely am I caught by the identify of the chief villian, but Jetmundsen so craftily weaves his plot, so fluidly builds his characters, that I was truly delighted by my surprise at the end.