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Customer Reviews for Multnomah Publishers, Inc. The Other Side of Darkness
Multnomah Publishers, Inc. The Other Side of Darkness
As a wife and mother, Ruth knows her prayers are crucial to her family's spiritual welfare. She stands between her precious children and the evil one, doing battle in prayer. She can't afford to be careless. Thankfully, she has powerful allies: Pastor Glenn, New Life Christian School where her daughters Mary and Sarah attend, and the inner circle at Arbor Drive Fellowship. They all reinforce her careful nurturance of her children.
If only her husband, Rick, understood that. He's exasperated about the money Ruth keeps spending for the church and school. Doesn't he see that these are their best defenses in shielding their children from the dangers of the world?
But the forces that threaten Ruth's faith, her family-her very life-are not the ones she expects. Ruth doesn't realize that her heartfelt desire to obey God is mingled with dangerous currents of OCD-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Her own strategies for protecting her family may be the very thing that tears them apart.
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Customer Reviews for The Other Side of Darkness
Review 1 for The Other Side of Darkness
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Interesting read!
Date:May 7, 2013
Liblady
Location:Australia
Age:45-54
Gender:female
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This books takes you into the often misunderstood and unknown world of OCD. The author gives good insight into what it is like living with this condition. Although slightly repetitive in some areas, it was generally a good read!
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Review 2 for The Other Side of Darkness
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Excellent source for understanding ocd
Date:April 6, 2013
Sherae
Location:CA
Age:55-65
Gender:female
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This book was a VERY informative story for any person who suffers from OCD or loves someone with it. If it seems a little excessive, it's because having it is! Untreated, it can lead to suicide! Having people around you who don't understand it's wicked tenants in you pushes you over the edge. If ANYONE judges someone for taking care of such a chemical or hormonal imbalance that manifests itself in OCD, they should be condemned! It is VERY real!! Thank you Melody for being willing to put yourself in this persons shoes to shed light on OCD. The spiritual aspect of this book is also very true and does happen! Nobody wants this disorder or to be spiritually off balance. Many times throughout the book the character is lucid and then crazy. That is how it is! It is also extremely confusing for the person going through it. EVERYBODY should read this book and not keep their head in the sand. OCD should not remain a silent killer!
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Date:March 22, 2013
Donna
Age:45-54
Gender:female
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This book was not a good book. It was full of weird worship rituals. It was nothing that I thought it would be. Very disappointed. I will burn the book instead of lending it to my friends.
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Review 4 for The Other Side of Darkness
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A long time to tell a story.
Date:August 27, 2012
girlford71
Age:35-44
Gender:female
I suppose the main character kind of got on my nerves. It seems that the story could have been told in about 100 pages instead of 383. After a certain point, I was just waiting for something unpredictable to happen. I bought it, so I read it, but I would not recommend it to anyone.
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Review 5 for The Other Side of Darkness
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A good book
Date:April 27, 2012
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I enjoyed this book very much. I've never read a book with this story line before. It is well writen.
I recommend it.
I recommend it.
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Date:January 14, 2012
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This was a true page-turner! It was easy to identify with many of the characters and easy to see how a belief system can take you right into a spiritual ditch! Loved every minute!
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Review 7 for The Other Side of Darkness
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Date:May 7, 2010
As a person who belonged to a cult for twelve years, this is a story that must be told. My church and situation were different and for years after I left it I could not see that it was really a cult.But just as the situation in THE OTHER SIDE OF DARKNESS, the church members were considered more important than family. I left the church I was born and raised in to follow "The One True Church." When my husband tried to keep me home, I left him and my children "For God." After all, I must obey God rather than man.Our family got back together on the promise that my husband would not keep me from my church.After twelve years the Lord brought me out of that church and back under the spiritual leadership of my husband.The Other Side Of Darkness is a novel that serves as a warning. Do your church leaders lead and keep you in the church by fear? Do they talk down other churches? And your other family members and friends?
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Review 8 for The Other Side of Darkness
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Date:June 30, 2009
Jane Murriner
This book made you think how and why people could easy get into false churches. People need to pray and read their Bibles more.
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Review 9 for The Other Side of Darkness
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Date:March 14, 2009
Elaine Kobrzynski
a.about a woman with OCD. Besides her frequent, obsessive hand-washing and shower routine, there is nothing in this story that seems to indicate a real problem with OCD. b.Lots of casting out demons basically this is the premise of the entire stories demons on every doorknob so to speak.
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Review 10 for The Other Side of Darkness
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Date:February 13, 2009
Joanne
I generally love Melody Carlson's writings. She has a way of drawing you in through her fast-paced, always-twisting plots and highly identifiable characters. She has a signature prose that is all her own and it helps her to tell a story with amazing poignancy. I enjoyed this book and thought it rang true on many different levels...but as a previous reviewer has said, I think Carlson left us hanging at the end with no real resolution to all the murkiness and confusion and evil that had plagued her throughout the novel. I loved how she didn't make this cultist school of thought 100% evil-sounding...a lot of it sounded really good and right. That's how it is in real life. It was VERY confusing and a lot of it needed real discernment to be able to separate the truth from the lies. I think it's a good thing that she portrayed it that way, but I felt like I was waiting for more of a 'rescue' from the murkiness at the end - a focusing on the TRUTH that Ruth had blindly been pulled away from. Rather, the book itself almost sort of does what the characters therein do - puts way too much emphasis on the evil and neglects to acknowledge the power of the good. The only 'resolution' we get from God, our loving yet righteous Father who loved and had His hand on Ruth the whole time, was a whisper of "none of that was Me." Very true! But that's all we get. I think that in the end, Carlson should have given us a better glimpse of the hope and freedom that is found in resting in the grace and mercy of the Lord, and what His kingdom is about - righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit!
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Review 11 for The Other Side of Darkness
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Date:February 6, 2009
Heather
For the most part, I love this author's books. This one, however, I did not care for.
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Review 12 for The Other Side of Darkness
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Date:August 2, 2008
This is a powerful, but dark novel about a woman battling mental illness. It's a hard read because who wants to feel like they are going crazy? The troubling thing about this story is that there are a lot of people who believe similar things who are Christians. How do you sort that all out? The main character seemed to be a Christian and she knew the Scriptures, but then she was influenced by her OCD. I admired that Ruth prayed a lot, but then things took a dark turn and though she kept praying she only got sicker. So it makes you wonder if she was seeking the Lord with her whole heart, which it appears that she was, why did the cultish group gain so much power over her mind? As the story progressed it almost seemed like rather than casting demons out, Ruth was bringing them home with her! Now I am not a person who believes there is a demon under every bush, but there is such a thing as opression. It was true that her church friends gave more attention to the enemy than the Savior, and that was a bad thing. But it still bothers me that she was so sincere, yet it was wrapped up in her illness. So how does one know whether they are hearing from God, or just losing their mind? In this story Ruth spent most of her time listening to other people tell her about what the Bible said so they shaped her thinking. The bottom line is that this was an unsettling, but powerful read. I didn't feel much hope, however, or I'd rank it higher. In real life there are not always happy endings, but in this case that could've been elaborated on more so the reader isn't left feeling bummed despite the good things that happened. That's the tricky part about writing a story with dark themes. The light has to shine brighter so the reader feels hope. And yes, there is some hope offered, but I'm not sure it's enough, because I never got the sense that Ruth ever really heard from God by the story's end.
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