After his daughter’s murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions — and finds unexpected answers — in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller. When Mackenzie Allen Phillips’s youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she’ll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an … she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that’s supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
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I appreciated this book’s unique perspective on faith and lived the emphasis on relationship with God. While I didn’t really agree with all of the theology, it made me yearn for heaven!
You love it or you hate it. Well, I loved it.
It is an allegory that tells of God’s love for his struggling children. It’s outrageous to think of God the Father as an older black woman and the Holy Spirit as an Asian woman. I am a very conservative Christian, but was not offended by it. It made me love God even more and was able to accept that, yes, bad things happen, but God is still there watching over us.
Inspiring , inspirational , faith building.
Really enjoyed this book, although it had a lot of sad parts too. I don’t know that everything it tried to teach was totally Biblical, but it was comforting.
Very thought provoking about important questions and issues. Gripping and engaging.
I loved this book. It has something very tragic that happens to this family but their faith heals the wound. Very uplifting and inspirational. Better than the movie, it left a few details out.
This book is about a man whose daughter disappears when they are on a camping trip. She is soon found to be murdered by evidence in a shack in the woods. Four years later, the man receives a note in his mailbox that says “Meet at the Shack”. He decides to go and the trip changes his life.
Okay – this book had 10,000 reviews on Amazon. I think everyone I know has read it. And everyone I know that read it, didn’t like it. But curiosity got the better of me, and when I found it was self published, I figured – why not.
I should have left it alone. It wasn’t terrible. It was fine. It was a little weird, and cheesy. The story starts very tragic – the death of a 6 year old girl is hard to read. But then the story moves to him being in the shack and meeting Jesus, and God, and the Holy Spirit. And the conversation is just……strange. And kind of rambly. So I quickly lost interest.
I don’t really recommend this book. It was alright, but I was glad to be done with it.
This is a very different view of Christianity.
As a believer, I found this book disturbing in that it takes truth and mixes it with lie very subtly, making for confusion in ones who don’t have a firm foundation in the Truth in Scriptures.
A totally new approach to the Trinity. One you won’t forget!
Surprising twists. It made me think differently.
Everyone really needs to read this book! I also saw the movie but three book is better. It will give you a good look at what we all are meant to do!
This book was so far fetched for me.
This book is amazing. One needs to read this book as it is and you will be taken away by such a deep book.
Would NOT recommend. False teachings
One of the best ever read. Helps explain why bad things happen to good people.
Had a hard time following the facts in story.
I read the book and saw the movie. I came away with some things to really think about. I didn’t get embroiled in all the negative chatter about this book, because I thought God could/would teach me somethings about our relationship and that was indeed what He did. I’ve recommended this book more than a few times.
I think it is a beautiful storyline, how I think of God, he takes many forms
Life changing read!