The Remnant by Monte Wolverson

The Remnant (Plain Truth Ministries, August 2016)

In the year 2069 the Apocalypse came and went, but Jesus didn’t show up, as some expected.

Instead, a cataclysmic war, natural disasters and pandemics eradicated 90 percent of earth’s population. Now, in 2131, a totalitarian government rules the world from the majestic, opulent capitol of Carthage, Tunisia. Blamed for igniting the war, religion and religious books are banned. Citizens who will not renounce their religion are sent to work camps.

Grant Cochrin, imprisoned in a bleak petroleum camp in what was once North Dakota, leads his family and friends to escape and embark on a long, dangerous quest for a Christian community. Their resource in this journey? A cherished page torn from the now banished Bible—a remnant of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount handed down from Grant’s grandparents.

What if there were an Apocalypse and Jesus didn’t return? What if the survivors found themselves living in a world ruled by a totalitarian government, where religion is forbidden and all religious texts have been destroyed?

In The Remnant, award-winning author Monte Wolverton tells the tale of a band of concentration camp escapees who trek through the lawless American wilderness on a quest for authentic Christianity, only to come face to face with an unthinkable dilemma. The Remnant is a fast-paced story punctuated with dry satire, memorable characters and hard questions about religious institutions.

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{MORE ABOUT MONTE WOLVERTON}

Monte Wolverton is an award-winning author and syndicated editorial cartoonist. He is associate editor of CWR magazine. He is an ordained minister and holds a MA from Goddard College in Vermont. Along with his wife Kaye, he makes his home in southwest Washington State.

Find out more about Monte at https://www.ptm.org/uni/resources/order/form_remnant.php.

My take:  I have always liked fiction that asks what would happen for the future.  I did enjoy this book to a point but I had a bit of a problem keeping my attention with this book.  I did enjoy learning various facts about different leaders.  Since the main characters had grown up when the Bible was outlawed and all Bibles were destroyed.  They just had one part of a page of the Bible so they escaped the work camp they were in and went looking for a group of Christians.  They meet different types of people along the way and continued on to find a group of Christians they felt comfortable with.  There was a bit of action and not a graphic violence.  I would recommend this book if you Last Days fiction and in you like wondering what might happen. 

I received a review copy of this book from Litfuse in exchange for my honest opinion.