I absolutely loved this crazy, sci-fi tale. With very little (was there any?) exposition, the reader is thrust into this unique world, navigating technologies, strange names, unexplained terrain and a backstory that is revealed slowly. However, here's the thing (for those reviewers who found this confusing or hard to manage) you don't have to understand every word, in fact, you can just glide right over the confusing bits and hang on for the ride. I loved this simple, wildly intelligent family living on the tiny world of Mt. Ararat and I loved following their story and the story of the crazy characters who found their way to their planet. So different, and this story was hilarious, too! I enjoyed this book, but it took me forever to read. Not because it was boring or uninteresting, because that is certainly not the fact, but for two reasons:1) The names of the characters were hard to digest, especially since the Reborn-in-Jesus family are the main characters in the book. Yes, that's their last name, so you can just imagine what their first names were like. It got a little confusing and I kept thinking that I really needed a character sheet so I could keep them all straight. Plus it got a little tedious as you went through with such long names.2) The author obviously enjoyed the use of his thesaurus while writing this book. Which is an odd thing for me to say considering I love big words and use them often. There were an exceptional amount in this book and even I spent a lot of time looking things up in the dictionary because I had never heard of the words before.The book is several stories over a period of time dealing with the Reborn-in-Jesus family and the little planet that they live on. As I said before, I really enjoyed the stories and was excited to find that their is a sequel to this book, one I plan on reading in the near future - though the description of it seems like it will be more about two of the children instead of the family as a whole. I recommend you read this book ... just make sure you have the dictionary downloaded on your Kindle :)
