True Light by Terri Blackstock
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Zondervan (July 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0310257697
ISBN-13: 978-0310257691

As Oak Hollow grapples with a global power blackout, a teenager is shot in a food robbery. Jailed as the suspect, young Mark Green must prove his innocence to a community that has already judged him in its heart. But the Branning family stands with him as he fights to survive—and forgive. Book three in Terri Blackstock’s Restoration series.

I reviewed books one and two in this series here and here.

This is the third book in the Restoration Series, and, although I enjoyed it, I didn’t like it as much as the first and second books. Why? It might be because I don’t want to see the people suffering anymore because of the lack of food and shelter? I just want the lights to come back on so that everybody can get back to the way their lives used to be! I do think this is a gripping series, and the characters have taken a hold of my mind and I just want to see everything end happily and for people to be okay.

When Zach, a young man, is shot over a deer, panic rises in the town of Oak Hollow. Mark, an Oak Hollow resident, is mistakenly blamed for the shooting, and until Zach recuperates and is no longer unconscious, there seems to be nobody who can clear Mark’s of the crime. Mark’s reputation is tainted because of his father’s background (his father was a murderer as well as a pornographer), and as a Christian, Mark wonders why he’s being forced to suffer from his father’s shady past.

Deni is saddened that Mark, her love interest, has to suffer for a crime he did not commit. The blackout is really affecting the town and this novel spends a great deal of time in the county jail where the skeletal-crew police force is trying to keep the prisoners behind bars.

I enjoyed this intriguing and suspenseful book and look forward to reading the last novel in the series.

~Cecelia Dowdy~