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Three Great Summer Reads That Prove Not All Christian Fiction Sucks
The Flabbergasted Trilogy
Winter is gone (for most of us, at least) and summer is on the horizon. That means beach trips, and beach trips demand books to read. But after you’ve frolicked in the ocean in the morning and before the serious drinking starts around midday, you want something light to read; there’s a reason you don’t see a lot of Marcel Proust or David Foster Wallace lying on the blankets next to the suntan lotion. This situation demands something fun but not mindless, preferably with a beach setting thrown in, and I have just the books for you, three of them to be exact.
The three books I’m recommending today form Ray Blackston’s Flabbergasted trilogy. Don’t let the trilogy part deter you; we’re not talking The Lord of the Rings here. You’ll be finished with all three books in the same amount of time it takes Frodo to get out of the freaking Shire in The Fellowship of the Ring.
The first book is 2003’s Flabbergasted; this was Blackston’s debut novel and the one that gives the trilogy its name. Prior to taking the leap into full-time writing, Blackston had been a stockbroker in his home state of South Carolina, so if nothing else at least he got his soul back.
