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Praise for The Canary List and Sigmund Brouwer
“Speculative Christian fiction is rare, and Brouwer does it with the skills of an episodic storyteller that make a reader wonder when the movie is coming out.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“Recommended for readers of visionary and science fiction and for larger Christian fiction collections.”
—Library Journal
“Sigmund Brouwer is one of my favorite authors. His versatility and the ease that he switches between genres and styles never cease to amaze me.”
—Melissa Willis, TheChristianManifesto.com
“Speculative Christian fiction is rare, and Brouwer does it with the skills of an episodic storyteller that make a reader wonder when the movie is coming out.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“Recommended for readers of visionary and science fiction and for larger Christian fiction collections.”
—Library Journal
“Sigmund Brouwer is one of my favorite authors. His versatility and the ease that he switches between genres and styles never cease to amaze me.”
—Melissa Willis, TheChristianManifesto.com
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Protected by the dark of night, Jaimie Piper runs. But is anywhere safe when Evil is hunting you?
She’s just a twelve year-old girl, bumped around between foster homes and relegated to school classes for challenged kids, those lagging in their test scores or with behavioral issues. But her real problem is that she can sense something the other kids can’t—something dark. Something compelling her to run for her life.
All Crockett Grey wants is to mark the anniversary of his daughter’s death alone.
But when his student Jaimie comes to him, terrified, her need for protection collides with his grief, and a tangled web of bizarre events sends them both spiraling toward destruction.
Crockett’s one hope of getting his life back is to uncover the mysterious secrets of Jaimie’s past and her strange gift. It isn’t long before his discoveries lead him to a darker conspiracy, secrets guarded by the highest seat of power in the world—the Vatican.
She’s just a twelve year-old girl, bumped around between foster homes and relegated to school classes for challenged kids, those lagging in their test scores or with behavioral issues. But her real problem is that she can sense something the other kids can’t—something dark. Something compelling her to run for her life.
All Crockett Grey wants is to mark the anniversary of his daughter’s death alone.
But when his student Jaimie comes to him, terrified, her need for protection collides with his grief, and a tangled web of bizarre events sends them both spiraling toward destruction.
Crockett’s one hope of getting his life back is to uncover the mysterious secrets of Jaimie’s past and her strange gift. It isn’t long before his discoveries lead him to a darker conspiracy, secrets guarded by the highest seat of power in the world—the Vatican.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Better Than The DaVinci Code,
By Bonnie Way (BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Canary List: A Novel (Paperback)
The Canary List is an intriguing, spell-binding novel. Even though every chapter was short (point of view changed frequently, keeping suspense high), it was hard to read for just a few minutes. I found myself devouring it chunks at a time, wanting to know what happened. Part of that was because the "conspiracy" is set within the Vatican and the Catholic Church. Was this just another Dan Brown novel, full of inaccuracies painted as facts?Pedophilia and child abuse is a huge issue within the Catholic Church. Brouwer raises the issue without flinching, looking at the ways that many priests are never charged with abuse while teachers like Crockett can have their careers ruined over false accusations. Yet Brouwer also points out, through psychiatrist Madelyne Mackenzie, that the Catholic Church is "an institution that does so much good all across the world. It's like a beautiful mansion, with one horrible, dark closet. But the closet draws all the attention, and the fact that the mansion is beautiful too often gets lost because of that." For anyone with further questions about the issues Brouwer raises in the novel, he provides a list of sources at the end (I don't remember Dan Brown proving he did any research for his thriller). Christian readers will likely be familiar with the idea of demons from books by Frank Peretti, and here Brouwer looks at different views about demons through the history of the Church. I liked the weave of information he spun through the story and found myself amazed at his research. I really enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to any other readers who like suspense or Sigmund Brouwer or good books.
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3.4 out of 5 stars (116 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Solid Thriller,
By OutlawPoet "OutlawPoet" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Canary List: A Novel (Paperback)
Pre-release customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program
Crockett Grey is a school teacher with the unfortunate tendency of mourning his deceased daughter at the bottom of a bottle of liquor. When one of his female students arrives at his house in the dead of night, terrified and begging for help, those memories of his daughter compel him to help her. This simple of act of help drags him into a world of false accusations, physical assault, and political and religious intrigue.*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Truth be told, had I realized that this was considered "Christian Fiction", I probably wouldn't have selected this book. Not really my genre. However, I'm glad I did. Though it suffered from a slow start (too many points of view without any initial cohesion), the author soon found his stride and I found myself involved, interested, and curious to see how it all ended. I don't want to put anything terribly spoilerly in this review (is that even a word?), but I want to address genre since some of the other reviews have addressed it. I read a ton of horror, paranormal, supernatural and spec fiction. This isn't horror and it's barely - maybe - paranormal/supernatural. I really would categorize this as a thriller. I also didn't see an overtly Christian message, though as one reviewer says, there's a lot of anti-Catholic sentiment here. Now, I'm Catholic, so maybe there was a sensitivity here, but Catholics, the Vatican, priests, etc. do seem to be presented in a wholly negative light - even seen as evil. I don't think there was a good Catholic in the bunch. A good atheist, though, so again - not sure it's really a Christian message here. However, it's fiction, so it didn't keep me from enjoying the story. The writing style was engaging. Some of the characters were better developed than others. Jaimie, who I thought was a major character, remained largely one-dimensional to me. Crockett was very vivid. I would say, if you like a good thriller, you might give this one a try. It doesn't quite reach a five star rating for me, but it's a solid four. One final note: One of the reviewers mentioned the Da Vinci Code. Some of it takes place in Rome and the Vatican and there's religious intrigue all over the place, but it's not at all like the Da Vinci Code to me. The style, plot, etc are extremely different. However, the author does want you to think of the Da Vinci Code when reading this. He even goes so far as having one of the characters reference Dan Brown toward the end of the book - just in case you didn't get that HE thinks this is a lot like the Da Vinci Code. It's not. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Faith-Based Thriller Offers Interesting Debate,
By Librarian - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Canary List: A Novel (Paperback)
Pre-release customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program
In Vatican City, Italy, the Pope is in an extended coma, leaving the Catholic Church with a dangerous power vacuum. On the other side of the world, in Santa Monica, California, 12-year-old Jaime--an orphan in foster care--thinks about Crockett Grey, the teacher of her Adaptive Behavior Classroom, and how he seems like he would be a really good dad. And in a room somewhere Dr. Madeleyne Mackenzie, child psychiatrist and Jaime's legal custodian, is celebrating a black mass with the other members of her coven.Depending on the reader's religious orientation, "The Canary List" by Sigmund Brouwer can be read either as a faith-based thriller or as a fantasy with Christian overtones. Believers will enjoy Brouwer's narrative as a simplified response to Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code." Non-Christians, as embodied by the novel's central character, skeptic Crockett Grey, can enjoy the debate built into a storyline that avoids sermonizing while presenting some provoking arguments, such as whether or not demons and witches actually exist and whether murder or deceit is ever acceptable when committed for a greater good. While all the characters are fairly stereotypical, the central players are likeable and the action is non-stop. The ending, delivered with a touch of sly humor, leaves room for further interpretation. Sometimes the dialogue is irritatingly repetitious or overly explanatory, suggesting the author had younger readers in mind. But, as Christian fiction, "The Canary List" should provide solid entertainment for its intended audience. (Note that this review is based on an Advance Reading Copy that contained quite a few word-processing errors. Hopefully, these will be corrected before publication.) 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Implausible, but compelling,
By Kenneth Sandberg - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Canary List: A Novel (Paperback)
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First of all, not being familiar with the author, I was expecting a more usual mystery/sleuthing story and not a horror story so I was a bit taken aback to realize what I was really reading. I felt the characters and situations were often implausible, with lots of head-shaking moments of me thinking, "Why is he/she doing this?" However, the writer has a compelling way of pulling you into the story, and you want to know what happens next, even if you don't believe it. As a story-teller, he's very good. Once I started, I didn't want to stop reading until I knew what happened to all the characters.
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