By R. Tyler Scott
Publish America
www.vinceprofett.com
Baltimore, MD
Vince Profett is a 12-year-old boy who has been given magical powers from God. An angel tells him that he has a great responsibility to use these powers against evil. I'll admit that I'm not too keen on magic powers in a book purporting to be Christian, but bear with me here. The series does have Christian values, with many references to God, prayer, and so forth, and it is written by a strong Christian author.
This is the second book in the Vince Profett series. In this book the evil is in the presence of a cute young lady who tries to lure Vince away from his Christian values and doing what is right. It is a spiritual battle to draw Vince and his abilities into the cult or destroy him.
I do have concerns about magic being in children's books, but my main concern would be a protagonist who uses chants and rituals and "causes" the magic himself. In this series, Vince's magic abilities are gifts from God that the reader can't even pretend to replicate without God; for me, that is an essential difference.
This book is full of adventure and dangerous situations. With his abilities, his mentor, Brother Sam, and his angel guardian, is Vince going to triumph? This is fun, good reading for boys between the ages of 10 and 13.
Product review by Nancy Wagner, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, LLC, December 2007
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