Book Review: The Q Manifesto

I grabbed The Q Manifesto when it was free on Kindle a couple of weeks ago. I’ll admit that it probably would have sat there longer, but I had another friend mention they were reading and enjoying it. So when the time came that I needed something new to read, I opted for it.

I’m so glad I did!

The Q Manifestois everything the DaVinci Code wishes it had been. I read the other when all the hype was fresh and Tom Hanks had been signed on for the movie and everyone was raving and I found it …meh. A large part of that, I’m sure, is that I just don’t appreciate the world view of Brown’s book. There were many other books that tried to jump on that bandwagon, from a Christian perspective, and I read a few of them and found them even more meh than the original. The notable exception to that is Craig Parshall’s The Resurrection File. (And even still, I didn’t love that one.)

But The Q Manifesto! It has action and romance and intrigue and enough skepticism of faith (as well as of the Q document) and they’re all blended together so nicely that you need to just take a day off from doing dishes and folding laundry and let the kids have just one more show on the TV so you can finish it. There were no slow spots. There were no eye roll inducing soapboxes. And while, sure, I figured out the few things that I think were intended to be twists, that didn’t make me want to put down the book. There was still enough going on that the investment wasn’t only about finding out whether it was conspiracy or truth, but about seeing my new friends (the characters) to the conclusion.