Mary Lou Lake is married to renown biblical teacher and seminary president, Dr. Michael Lake. This book is an honest nothing-held-back account of her struggle with depression, a generational curse and occult attacks. She is quite candid and honest in her narrative. I appreciated her ability to share very intimate details of her sojourn of occult assault, battling lifelong depression, weak faith, questionable practices, traditionalism, and misconceptions. She uncovers a conspiracy and fellow victims of mind control by an occult coalition operating in her region. Although the path is harrowing given that her grandparents were practitioners of the black arts, Mary overcomes. Her sojourn did eventually lead to freedom and spiritual rebirth.
The author effectively uses the narrative but the oft-referred steps to freedom are spread throughout the book. I did have some issues with the writing style and structure. Her tendency to meander from her narrative to spiritual guidance clouds the teaching at times. She does explain the reason for this in the latter part of the book but that is too late. Another issue I had with the book is that she went back to give closure to something she raised dozens of pages before too many times. The disorganization hurt the impact of this book
Overall, the book is informational and impacted my faith understanding of spiritual attacks, spiritual warfare and deliverance. But, the title was misleading in that it was more a personal account than a teaching book. There are passages and tales which will stay with me for awhile. I did come away with the belief that this book is her very personal testimony of her covenant with Almighty God. Good, not great.