Book Review & Giveaway - Illusion by Frank Peretti

 

Illusion

 by:  Frank Peretti

About the Book:

"Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for forty years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy’s life—or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns and tries to rebuild his life without her, Mandy, supposedly dead, awakes in the present as the nineteen-year-old she was in 1970. Distraught and disoriented in what to her is the future, she is confined to a mental ward until she discovers a magical ability to pass invisibly through time and space to escape. Alone in a strange world, she uses her mysterious powers to eke out a living, performing magic on the streets and in a quaint coffee shop.

Hoping to discover an exciting new talent, Dane ventures into the coffee shop and is transfixed by the magic he sees, illusions that even he, a seasoned professional, cannot explain. But more than anything, he is emotionally devastated by this teenager who has never met him, doesn’t know him, is certainly not in love with him, but is in every respect identical to the young beauty he first met and married some forty years earlier.
They begin a furtive relationship as mentor and protégée, but even as Dane tries to sort out who she really is and she tries to understand why she is drawn to him, they are watched by secretive interests who not only possess the answers to Mandy’s powers and misplacement in time but also the roguish ability to decide what will become of her.
Frank Peretti has crafted a rich, rewarding story of love and life, loss and restoration, full of twists and mystery."

My Review:
Illusion is basically a love story, but with a twist!  This is a time traveling story that starts with heartbreak and then takes you through a well written story that involves magic and technology.  There is alot of technical info as you learn the ins and outs of magic.  Peretti creates amazing details that allow you to immerse right into the storyline, which by the way is totally unbelievable at first but Peretti explains it at just the right time.  Can love stand the test of time, that is the question.

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*I received a complimentary copy of the book in this post via Handlebar Marketing for purposes of this review, however all opinions are my own.