I kind of figured this might be a little difficult, because I want to tell all about the book and how good it was. But at the same time, I don’t really want to give away the ending. So, ill try my best.

I’ll start with a little background;

William P. Young, the author of The Shack initially only printed fifteen copies of his book for friends and family who encouraged him to have it published. Later, after being turned down by Christian publishers because his book was too secular and being turned down by secular publishers because his book was to Christian, Young decided to publish the book himself in 2007. After only a year of word-of-mouth referrals his book eventually made its way to the New York Times trade paperback fiction best-seller list in June 2008.

The Shack begins with Mack and his three kids on what seemed to be a normal family vacation. Until something terrible happens. While Mack is sidetracked with two is his kids having a canoe accident, Mack’s youngest daughter, Missy, has been left unattended for just moments. During this time Missy has been abducted and later, there is evidence found in a shack deep in the Oregon wilderness that she may have been brutally murdered.

Four years later, in the midst of depression in Mack’s life, he receives a note apparently from God, which invites him back to the shack, the place he hates most, for a weekend.

Against his better judgment, he arrives at this shack on a cold wintry afternoon only to find the last thing he really expected