Ted has been many things...
...selfish, greedy, and even a murderer.
How will he survive judgment day?
Ted's in a hotel room, with a woman named Bella, in the Canary Islands. He's moments from death. In retrospect, he'd made it to the end and never paid for the drug dealing, gun running, or even the people he's killed.
Let the trial begin.
St. Peter said, "It doesn't look good."
This other world, one we think of as the afterlife, it isn't as advertised. There is a God, but this Deity isn't the God people imagine. Ted's judgment day will peel back the layers of his life. Is there redemption to be found?
Will the ruling be Heaven or Hell? Or is there something else?
Before they can begin, Ted needs an advocate. After a lifetime of deceit, will anyone stand for him?
You'll love this clever look at a life, because what we see on the surface is often only a shade of the truth.
Get it now.
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[It was 1960 and Ted Bailey was fourteen years old, a good-looking boy, already five foot eight and still growing with skin unmarked by acne and curly hair that his father thought he wore a little long though his mother said that was the fashion now]***
(@MandrillPress, 1 February 2020, 263 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 7 July via @RandomTTours)
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I'd never heard of the author before so I had no idea what to expect from this book. I loved it. Darkness Comes is one of the most original books I've read in a long time. I just loved the idea of it, someone about to die, put on trial where their good and bad actions are judged. Which sins are bad enough to be condemned to hell for? Ted fears for his afterlife as scenes from his life as played out on a screen and discussed and judged. The spirits of people from his life share their experiences and condemn him or support him. Ted is not a nice person but he's hardly a monster. Should he be judged? Can his selfish, criminal behaviour be defended? I loved this book so much.
