Benjamin Turner, not your average teenager, discovers he can interact with the spirit world. He finds that what he has been told is true, isn't the whole truth. Benjy makes contact with a spirit guide, who leads him deeper into the world he was promised by so many, but could never experience; But alas!
No one warned him just what he might find.
Benjy and Shirley explore this and make discoveries that change their lives.
It is an exciting set of events, smoothly flowing, yet deliciously unpredictable, humorous and surprising, yet altogether real. One gets the sense you are living this life, feeling the experiences and sometimes even unlocking similarities in your own experiences. Real life has the ability to do strange things, and so too this book takes u-turns down unexpected alleys of real life.
Insight into relationships between teens and their spiritual aspirations, desires, and the realities they wrestle with daily, come to life. The book has been described by many of those who have reviewed it as an easy read, Taking you into the realm of the supernatural and tugging at your heart strings.
In terms of content, reviewers of this book have been selected from people who have walked this road, either as parents of, or teens like Benjy, Shirley, George and Candy. Each agreed on the accuracy of the truth behind the story line. The unasked questions, together with answers from personal experience, are woven into the novel.
Rick Evans grew up all over South Africa. He moved through many different towns and cities before High School. He was lonely, never having the chance, to develop true and lasting friends, so he sought companionship within the spirit world. Although he was seeking the truth, he wandered into a relationship, with spirits from the spirit world.
These spirits could do things, they had power and they were able to change his life - for a short time. All the while, though, they spread their tentacles throughout his body, and his life. Too late, Rick discovered that what had originally been innocent, had in fact been a subtle slide, which dragged him day by day, very slowly, and imperceptibly, deeper and deeper, into a darkness that fills most of the world today.
He fought his way back out with the help of the only safe Spirit Guide. Today, he walks with this Spirit Guide, who is known as the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit of God is the one and only true Spirit Guide. He can only be reached through Jesus Christ.
Rick lives in the spirit, and the power of God's Spirit pulsates through what he does and says. He will quickly add that he slips and falls, just like all of us. Rick managed to escape. He spends a lot of time trying to help others, most of whom, do not realise, that the same things, which had once dragged himself