Nowhere on this book's cover did it state it was heavily Christian orientated or I wouldn't have bothered even trying to read it. Mores the pity that it has this heavy angle because without it, it actually would have been a pretty cool book. There were some great ideas, plots, characters, and descriptions, but I groaned every time I was preached at, and in the end gave up trying to read the whole thing because of it. It was in fact decidedly sneaky on the part of the cover, and as it slowly became more intense as the book went on I felt like I had been ambushed by a seemingly cool group of people who turned out to be a prayer circle trying to indoctrinate me. Go on Karen write a book without the preaching, and I'm sure it will be great.