This is my 3rd time, I think, reading “This Present Darkness.” Next is “Piercing...” of course. 3rd time, too. Though the last time I read the books was sometime around 1996 or so. I don’t think his other books are let downs, as a matter of fact, I think “The Oath” was his best one yet. It’s hard for a book to grip me in the first three paragraphs, but the escaping through the woods scene in that book was simply amazing.
Funny....my brother, who is a pastor, loved the Oath, too. I’ve had Monster on my shelf for 3 years but cant get into it, at all. Then recently I read “Monster House” (or something along those lines, written with another author)but it was almost secular and boring to me.