-One thng I don't really like about Ted Dekker's book is the tendency to make Muslim terrorists the villians. There's usually a Muslim trying to destroy America for Allah in a very high position in the operation.
-I LOVE the way Ted Dekker writes his 3rd person views from no one's perspective except this narrator just staring down on the planet. They're just perfect and I can't express the joy that fills my heart when I come across these little paragraphs.
-"The small cargo vessel had made the trip from the Bahamas to Curtis Point- just south of Annapolis and a stone's throw away from Washington DC- dozens of times, each time with a variety of imported goods on board, usually with at least a partial load of exclusive lumbers sold by the pound rather than by the foot." Freaking BRILLIANT line
-This book was really predictable, but it wasn't a bad book in the slightest. It was just, like I said, really predictable.

-It was PAINFULLY obvious that Casius was Shannon the whole time
-Throughout the whole book I was kind of jumping back and forth on whether or not Shannon was Jamal, and he was, so, I was right.
-The book handles the Sula magic thing really weirdly. Like, it's introduced in the beginning, and then kind of in the background when we get Casius' perspective, and it's not really tied up in the end. Is he still affected by the Sula voice? Why was it there in the first place? Why was the staff specifically what started the Sula voice in his head? Is Shannon a Christain now? Like, his plot thread involving Sula is just kind of not tied up, and it's unsatisfying and a little weird.