Title: Uninvited
Author: Lysa Terkeurst
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2016.
Number of Pages: 275pp
ISBN: 978-1-4002-0588-2 (eBook)
Uninvited by Lysa Terkeurst is a book that speaks on loneliness, rejection, hurt, and the way out. There are other books on this subject matter but Uninvited is unique in its own ways.
The book has 16 chapters. The chapters present issues such as honesty, questions to reflect, hate, loneliness, trust issues, breakups, scratching of norms, corrective experience, why rejection hurts so much, threat of someone’s success, things to remember when rejected, the enemy’s plan against one, miracles in the mess, the desperate in between, urge to run away, and being fixed.
The author shares her own life experiences within and across all the chapters. While this is superb and practical, there are limitations. First, the root of her rejection issues, is definitely not same with that of many people. Second, the solutions are too witty and motivational even though she used scriptural texts. Although, a lover of stories would enjoy the book as it is spiced with short stories from the beginning to the end.
The book is written in simple words such that a junior high school student can read it without difficulty. However, the spread out of the chapters are unnecessary. Matters that could have been discussed in one chapter are scattered into many.
More so, women are the major focus of this book. This is proved in Lysa’s use of expressions such as “lady” and “girl” in most of her illustrations and examples. However, the book is also of immense value to men and boys.
If there is something I particularly like about the book, it is its clarity and practicability. It wouldn’t take time for reader to get moved and inspired as the short stories are so clear and fitting that one might be carried away by them.
