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The Vision
What do you get when Islamic terrorists and White-Supremacists go up against a small group of Bible believers in the hills of East Tennessee?
The Vision is a thriller with a suspenseful blend of fiction and nonfiction which incorporates actual historical records, current earth science, recent medical and herbal discoveries, today's international news, and crucial Biblical prophecy.
The Vision is a thriller with a suspenseful blend of fiction and nonfiction which incorporates actual historical records, current earth science, recent medical and herbal discoveries, today's international news, and crucial Biblical prophecy.
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330 pages, Paperback
First published June 15, 2009
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June 14, 2011
This is the fourth worst book I have read at this point in my literate life.
The author, in the first four chapters, manages to make a mockery of herself in every way available to an unusually nutty, child-beating fundie. She expresses--and, via a terrorism-wracked world more befitting of a conservative survivalist's fantasy than a modern-day description of the world--attempts to justify the most paranoid Islamophobia I have ever seen in a fictional work; praises herbal medicine to a highly risible degree (somewhere after the point where I stopped, she uses a brew of "herbs and berries" to resurrect a dead dog); exposes, via subtle and unintentional slips, features of her backwards, archaic philosophy that will make any potential converts immediately put the book down; and manages to state numerous scientific and factual falsehoods.
The book is badly written on every level. Nothing in it does not strike me as cliched or melodramatic--including the characters, plot, and phrasing. The writing itself even breaks down at points, as a passage from Chapter 2 shows:
"Two years earlier there was a terrible drought in East Tennessee, which stressed nature, but the "blue tongue fly" had flourished, descending on the deer population, crawling into and biting their ears. This spread a disease called Blue Tongue from deer to deer. Until autumn that year, the springs and creeks had been full of dead deer, trying in vain to quench their thirst. Over 40% of the deer population had perished in East Tennessee."
Seriously--who the heck taught this woman to write?
The author, in the first four chapters, manages to make a mockery of herself in every way available to an unusually nutty, child-beating fundie. She expresses--and, via a terrorism-wracked world more befitting of a conservative survivalist's fantasy than a modern-day description of the world--attempts to justify the most paranoid Islamophobia I have ever seen in a fictional work; praises herbal medicine to a highly risible degree (somewhere after the point where I stopped, she uses a brew of "herbs and berries" to resurrect a dead dog); exposes, via subtle and unintentional slips, features of her backwards, archaic philosophy that will make any potential converts immediately put the book down; and manages to state numerous scientific and factual falsehoods.
The book is badly written on every level. Nothing in it does not strike me as cliched or melodramatic--including the characters, plot, and phrasing. The writing itself even breaks down at points, as a passage from Chapter 2 shows:
"Two years earlier there was a terrible drought in East Tennessee, which stressed nature, but the "blue tongue fly" had flourished, descending on the deer population, crawling into and biting their ears. This spread a disease called Blue Tongue from deer to deer. Until autumn that year, the springs and creeks had been full of dead deer, trying in vain to quench their thirst. Over 40% of the deer population had perished in East Tennessee."
Seriously--who the heck taught this woman to write?
January 3, 2013
Amateur writing where accented speech is always spelled out rather than alluded to and islamophobia is rampant. Lots of flat out creepiness when you realize that for the followers of this author, fiction and reality are extremely blurred.
December 19, 2021
I did not like this book. In all honesty, I did not even get to the half-way point before I stopped reading. Maybe it's just not my kind of book - but it's too 'out there' for me. I don't enjoy graphic violence and evil in my reading material. I don't like swear words that are there just other symbols used for letters (come on, like I don't know what the words are??). If you are into fantastical conspiracy theories, then you might enjoy this. Not me.
February 16, 2023
Clearly not even worth one star. Easily the most offensive book I've ever read which is full of unlikable characters, a poorly thought out plot, horrific attempts at dialogue, a complete lack of understanding of basic English (lost of instances of getting 'distain' and 'disdain' mixed up, and the instance of 'chloroform' being mistaken for 'chlorophyll'), and some of the most harmful, bigoted ideologies I've ever read.
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January 23, 2013
Oh my. I don't know where to begin on this one. I absolutely adored it. It's one of those novels you like to go back and reread again numerous times. This was really really really good. I love how so much reality and fact is interwoven with the fiction and non-reality. Sometimes it's difficult to tell the two apart. Not to mention, I just ate the story up like it was coffee ice cream. It hooked me. Asher and Cheyenne's relationship tore me up, they so belong together. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book!
April 30, 2014
I loved this book from the beginning to the end. How Debi weaves in the Scripture and the true facts of the Muslims is just amazing. And she included the recipe for the Herbal Berry Brew in the book (no it’s not the supernatural one:)). The little information boxes at the bottom of the pages were really interesting as well. I can’t wait for the next book to come out. I think Debi is an amazing author.
January 11, 2015
Hard to put down kind of book and will keep you entertained. I only gave it two stars because it was too much like a novel. I don't think I will read any more in this series.
February 19, 2023
So the opening of this alone is extremely confusing and basically a comedy act opening. There's no way to take this opening blurb and turn it into something serious and not satire.
"What do you get when Islamic terrorists and White-Supremacists go up against a small group of Bible believers in the hills of East Tennessee?"
Stupidity that offends everyone, every race, sexuality, religion, age range, sex, and more.
You can have literature with problematic content, you can have literature with bad ideas, you can even have literature that's two stories in one, this is none of that. This is one of those books that says everyone is bad except for the goody goody Christians. But not just any christians, a very specific type of Christian that is very specific and doesn't really exist.
Our main villains are Muslim, who's only crime are being Muslim. And because they're muslim, they're the bad guys not because they're doing anything bad they're just there. And. Muslim.
What?
Our main heroic guys are trying to convert everyone to christianity, and that's the reason why everyone who doesn't is bad. Yes, this book is about convert to Christianity or burn in hell. The entire world must convert.
The Muslims literally want to just do their own thing and be left alone in this book, and the Christians keep invading and attacking them, so they're bad because they don't want to convert to something and be forced into something they don't want to do. How very non-con of you. Obviously people should consent to converting to a religion not be forced in or ostracized otherwise.
There's this one scene where a guy sees a girl on the side of the road and begs God to help her because he's got a wife and child and doesn't want to go back to jail. My brain read it as he was tempted to rape her/a nonce. So I couldn't stop thinking he was the entire time he was there.
Regardless it's written well, it's garbage propaganda and violating people's rights in a fictional world, but this isn't an atrocious writing level. Characters are bare bones and need deeper development, and the plot is terrible. But it's well-written terrible. Not even atrocious writing to make this better.
So the villains are anyone who isn't white or christian and the plot is terrorism bad, and all outside religions are terrorists.
And the Christians are the aggressor. But they're heroes, we swear!
The guy on the cover isn't even there most of the book... Great job.
He's named Asher btw. His best friend was killed by Muslims. And singing killed his grandma. Actually "he was more than a friend". Oh, how I wish he was gay. But nah, the guy was a father-figure-friend. I don't know the age gap but chances are Asher was calling him daddy and that would have been a better book for sure.
I was bored and sort of in and out entertained by how ridiculous and over the top garbage this book was.
0 stars. Jesus Christ won't even touch this.
"What do you get when Islamic terrorists and White-Supremacists go up against a small group of Bible believers in the hills of East Tennessee?"
Stupidity that offends everyone, every race, sexuality, religion, age range, sex, and more.
You can have literature with problematic content, you can have literature with bad ideas, you can even have literature that's two stories in one, this is none of that. This is one of those books that says everyone is bad except for the goody goody Christians. But not just any christians, a very specific type of Christian that is very specific and doesn't really exist.
Our main villains are Muslim, who's only crime are being Muslim. And because they're muslim, they're the bad guys not because they're doing anything bad they're just there. And. Muslim.
What?
Our main heroic guys are trying to convert everyone to christianity, and that's the reason why everyone who doesn't is bad. Yes, this book is about convert to Christianity or burn in hell. The entire world must convert.
The Muslims literally want to just do their own thing and be left alone in this book, and the Christians keep invading and attacking them, so they're bad because they don't want to convert to something and be forced into something they don't want to do. How very non-con of you. Obviously people should consent to converting to a religion not be forced in or ostracized otherwise.
There's this one scene where a guy sees a girl on the side of the road and begs God to help her because he's got a wife and child and doesn't want to go back to jail. My brain read it as he was tempted to rape her/a nonce. So I couldn't stop thinking he was the entire time he was there.
Regardless it's written well, it's garbage propaganda and violating people's rights in a fictional world, but this isn't an atrocious writing level. Characters are bare bones and need deeper development, and the plot is terrible. But it's well-written terrible. Not even atrocious writing to make this better.
So the villains are anyone who isn't white or christian and the plot is terrorism bad, and all outside religions are terrorists.
And the Christians are the aggressor. But they're heroes, we swear!
The guy on the cover isn't even there most of the book... Great job.
He's named Asher btw. His best friend was killed by Muslims. And singing killed his grandma. Actually "he was more than a friend". Oh, how I wish he was gay. But nah, the guy was a father-figure-friend. I don't know the age gap but chances are Asher was calling him daddy and that would have been a better book for sure.
I was bored and sort of in and out entertained by how ridiculous and over the top garbage this book was.
0 stars. Jesus Christ won't even touch this.
March 26, 2025
Did not finish. Could not finish. The most vile racism meets a persecution fetish only a Christian could come up with and somehow literally NOTHING HAPPENS. This book should be deleted from the timeline and Debi and her 'to dominate a child' husband should be forced to work every lunch shift at every large fast food chain every day on a minimum wage until they're buried under its floorboards. Jesus dick me down Christ what a rancid stank pile of data even Satan himself wouldn't call a book. Fuck. FUCK.
October 4, 2023
Absolutely awful in so many different ways, I'd forgotten I'd read this due to it being THAT. BAD.
January 31, 2010
Started a bit rough (author's first novel), but definitely got a lot better the farther it went. The scary part is, it's a contemporary story about the near future describing a very possible state of affairs here in America. Because of my familiarity with the author's non-fiction work, I am confident that much research went into this fictional story, and it gives much food for thought and prayer. It is the first of a series, so I really am looking forward to the rest. Debi Pearl is a great story teller, and I know each book will be better than the last.
January 3, 2011
I really looked forward to reading this book, Debi Pearl's first novel, and was not disappointed. The story begins a little slowly while characters and the basic storyline are under development. Then it takes off, intertwining an engaging story with information on herbs and Biblical teaching. I am familiar with this author's non-fiction work and am thereby confident in the knowledge and research that went into the book. The ending took me by surprise. I look forward to the sequel.
January 2, 2015
The word that kept coming to mind as I read this book was "odd." It was fairly well written and the story was interesting, if not believable... but it just had an odd feel to it. And I'm not sure that I agree with all the convictions of the author. I probably won't read the sequel.
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January 9, 2012
It was a decent first shot at a novel, but some things were over-developed while others (that needed to be more so) were under-developed. I look forward to the sequel.
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May 12, 2013very intriguing book!It will get your attention. Good read!
September 14, 2022
It was a pretty great book but she ended it with a cliffhanger and she doesn't have any other books in the series. That was a disappointment.
April 9, 2013
Excellent! Anticipating the next one.
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