Rising Stars Book Club

Hi! No, I didn't feel The Shack was life-changing on any level. However, I have a strong, non-mainstream faith that grew out of questions I had growing up, questions I could never find answered in the churches I attended. I think this book appeals to people who have never waivered in their beliefs, people who feel a sense of liberation in hearing the way Young presented the Trinity.

You know what frustrated me about this book? I kept waiting for Mack to ask God about the Devil. Wouldn't a man who has grown up in institutional Christianity, whose Church preaches to love Jesus Christ and fear of the Devil, whose own daughter was brutally murdered, wouldn't he ask about the Devil at least once during the long weekend he spent tete-a-tete with God?

I've tried to come up with a plausible answer for why Young chose to leave the Devil out of the story, even though he included an evil and heinous crime against a child, but I can't figure it out.

Anyone have a guess?