Book Brief - Limelight

Limelight
Melody Carlson
Multnomah Books (October 6, 2009)

Claudette Fiore enjoyed the limelight and can't get over the fact that those days of public attention are long past. After losing her Beverly Hills mansion to a dishonest, and incompetent, accountant, she attempts to kill herself but lands in the hospital instead. She begs her stepson in Hawaii to rescue her from her deplorable situation. Begrudgingly, she soon finds herself returning to the home her deceased mother left her and with the help of her stepson, attempts to live a "normal" life. Unfortunately, her previous movie star life of maids and servants has left her lacking any sort of homemaking or housekeeping skills at all and the comedy of errors begins.

Amazon customers most popular "tags" for this book are Christian fiction, inspirational fiction and religious fiction. Fiction it is (I assume). Christian? Only if you strip Christianity of a holy God, hell and sin. (which many are happy to do for obvious reasons.) Inspirational? Only if constant complaining, an entitlement attitude and incest inspire. Religious? I suppose that depends on how you define religious.

From its depiction of homosexuality to it's "strawman" of God to it's selfish and stuck-up protagonist this insidious novel is neither Christian nor inspirational. Moralistic and shallow "Christian culture" such as this, from a very popular Christian author, is just another indication of how far Christianity has strayed from contending for the deep, rich and God-centered faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. (Jude 1:3)

This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.

Rating: Avoid