On one hand, this book moved me to feel so much compassion for a mom whose journey went so differently than she expected facing her son's diagnosis with autism. I was amazed at the way Josiah learned to write and communicated things of God in messages on an iPad. Many times the story became almost unbelievable and other-worldly. There were times Josiah's messages were confusing and very odd; however, there were almost always evidences of divine presence in his writing. The thing that caused me to disconnect some from the story was that I felt the challenges of the family's life together was expressed more in blanket statements ("This is hard!) than painting a picture with the details of things going on (Specific stories of the challenges from start to finish). I'm not sure if leaving out detail was intentional to not distract from the supernatural aspect of the story, but it made it harder to connect with Josiah and Tahni in a real way for me. Because there are aspects of the story that are fantastic and hard to imagine, having little idea of the realities of the context in the home made it even harder to grasp. It could be just me but I felt a disconnect... and then trouble getting through the book. It is certainly an amazing story, and powerful to consider how God can specially use and minister to people with special needs.

Thanks so much for the ARC! I didn't enjoy this one as much as I thought I would, though.