Is there anything you would change about this book?
If Prepper Fiction is on of the genre’s you enjoy I think you too may recognize Goodwin’s Ichabod as a mix of Boyd Craven’s ‘Good Fences’ and Frank Horton’s ‘Legion of Despair’. While there is slight variance in themes, the sequence of events in the three books is nearly identical. The recommended change would be in having a more original story line.

Character development between ‘Behold Darkness and Sorrow’ and ‘Ichabod’ seems inconsistent and unrealistic at best. Some of the new characters introduced in ‘Ichabod’ would appear to have a better story to share than the original characters around whom this central story revolves.

Would you ever listen to anything by Mark Goodwin again?
I became a fan of Mark Goodwin’s via his Economic Collapse trilogy. As he shifted to more faith based works I have become enormously disappointed. My disappoint is not because of the subject matter, but rather. because of the seeming ignorance displayed in his books about the book upon which his faith is based.

‘Ichabod’ emphasizes the removal of the Father’s blessings from the USA because the nation strayed from His laws/commandments. Yet, Goodwin seems to have no foundational understanding whatsoever of the Father’s laws/commandments via the actions of his central characters in this series.

I am undecided as to whether I will purchase any more of Mark Goodwin’s Audible offerings. The quality of the past two series is not that of the economic collapse series. I feel as though ‘Ichabod’ was a rip-off of two other Audible offerings and that I wasted money on a cheap copy of other works. I am NOT suggesting Goodwin plagiarized. Rather, a lack of research and lack of imagination in Prepper Fiction in general leads to the retelling of the same story ad nauseam.

What about Kevin Pierce’s performance did you like?
Love Kevin Pierce as a narrator. He never disappoints.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
No.
Any additional comments?
Those seeking faith based fiction should beware of being led astray by the author’s ignorance of the foundations of Christianity , especially in regard to the Law and the Prophets. There is a great deception in the modern Christian churches and Goodwin is, while perhaps unwittingly, leading others astray by entertaining and promoting this deception in his works of fiction.