Mike Dellosso offers a post-apocalyptic novel that challenges us to look into our deepest selves and find our purpose in “Midnight is My Time.”
It’s 10 years after The Event, or what some call The Taking and what today’s Christians would refer to as the Rapture. Andy Mayer finds himself on the road in central Pennsylvania, inexplicably drawn to travel northeast. He’s not sure where he’s going or why he’s going or how he’s going to get there.
Along the way he meets Missy, a young blind woman who can’t see his freakish appearance left behind from a childhood accident. The two quickly learn to rely on one another and trust each other as more and more people filled with evil intentions come after them.
As they stumble upon others who help and not hinder their journey, they must come to terms with their different and unique abilities — and learn to overcome the battles that rage within them and open themselves to their true natures.
With “Midnight is My Time,” Dellosso brings another great thriller with a paranormal spin, much in the vein of novels by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti. He instills just enough creepy and unexplainable elements to keep the reader intrigued. He also puts a different spin on the End Times described in the Bible’s book of Revelation, and how the world will be after Christians are taken up to Heaven.
“Midnight is My Time” also offers several great life lessons and important themes to remember — that we all have a plan and a purpose; that we can be haunted by memories if we keep feeding them, but that we have the power to overcome our past; and we all wrestle with inner demons.
Fans of Dellosso will enjoy references to some of his other books, including “Sons of God” — and a scene at a house in the woods possibly taken from “Fear Mountain.”
A word of warning, there is violence throughout this novel as good fights against evil.
Five stars out of five.