One Thing I Know

by Kara Isaac

One Thing I Know is a charming new story by Kara Isaac that released today (February 19, 2019). As I read the story, I kept thinking about the movie Someone Like You, only the book is cleaner and faith-based.

In true Isaac fashion there are many laugh out loud moments as well as tear inducing tender moments. She’s very gifted in bringing me in as a reader so I feel what the characters are feeling.

In One Thing I Know we find great characters, who are all hiding something. The two main characters, Rachel Somers and Lucas Grant are relationship experts whose paths cross creating a situation where both are deceiving the other.

This deception has some reviewers upset because they feel Rachel and Lucas shouldn’t be deceiving people. They're upset because Isaac has written a book that doesn't have the perfect Christian redemption moment. These negative reviews of this lovely story disturb me. I never felt like Isaac was condoning deception. It’s a work of fiction, for crying out loud. The fact the characters aren’t hopping into bed with each other at the drop of a hat or cursing every other word makes it a good read for me. In many ways I think Christian literature isn’t more popular with the mainstream because the people portrayed, nine times out of ten, are just too perfect. I need a book to be at least somewhat realistic and there are no perfect people, Christian or non-Christian.

And then why is it an author, who has written mostly Christian literature, can't write a mainstream book. If you have the talent to tell a good clean story that should be celebrated and not vilified given the unbelievable, gratuitous stuff that is out there today.

One Thing I Know is just another example of how gifted Isaac truly is. You won’t find perfect people in this book, but in the end you see hope for a few lost people who are on a journey. 

It’s definitely a five-star book in my opinion, and I hope it's a great success for Isaac both with Christian and mainstream audiences.

What do you think? Should Christian books only feature Christian people perfectly modeling how to live and act?

 

If a Christian author has a story idea that doesn't end with people finding Jesus, should they refrain from writing it?