"The Oath"  by Adriana Lima View All Reviews

This book is very complex and has a very suspenseful feel to its plot. As most of Peretti's books, The Oath is character driven and has a complex plot development, including many unexpected twists!

 The characters in this book have a variety of pasts which affect how they act in their present and future. The main character Steve Benson starts out as an individual searching for answers to how and why his sister-in-law is in the hospital and why his brother is dead. What he finds out is a town who made a deal with the devil; an oath given long ago.

 What makes the town special, other than the unique people in it, including Officer Tracy Ellis, Levi Cobb, and Harold Bly, is the dragon which, one-by-one, takes the lives of the sinners in the town. Peretti does a very good job of using the allegory of a dragon and ooze over the heart to represent sin and demonstrate how the wages of sin is death.

 The character transformation displayed in The Oath shows that sin can corrupt and make the best of people do evil, as well as not corrupt those who look to Jesus for victory over their sin. In the end it is the love, faithfulness towards God, and God's authority and power that wins over sin.

 Frank Peretti has truly done it again, in bringing the audience face to face with the reality of sin and the flesh which dwells within us all. I truly recommend this book, not only as a story, but as a good lesson and eye opener into the world of sin and love; death and life.

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