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Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite
Grant Leishman’s book, The Second Coming, opens with a man recovering consciousness in hospital, and trying to remember his identity. Whoever he is, he’s sure he has a mission to accomplish and very little time to do it. Gradually his memory returns. He, Jose Castillo from the Philippines, is the son of God, and he has been ‘allowed’ to return to Earth. The Second Coming was promised over two millennia ago, but nowhere in the Bible is there a caveat: this is Jesus Christ’s last chance! Far from returning to save the people who condemned Him to death, He has one year to pull mankind back from the brink of annihilation. God intends to destroy what He regards as a flawed project and in excess of seven billion people depend on Jose, known to his friends as JC, for their survival.
Intriguingly different, often funny, Grant Leishman’s The Second Coming is a joy to read. He contrives, by means of humour that is never malicious, not to offend those with Christian beliefs, but the story is rooted in the Bible just enough to enable the suspension of disbelief. Amongst all the electrifying fictional action, JC performs a miracle and visits a cathedral where he clears the Filipinos hawking goods outside as uncharacteristically violently as Christ did when he drove the money changers from the temple in Jerusalem. Ma, Maria Lyn Manyanan, has to be Mary Magdalene and there have been suggestions that she was more to Jesus than a prostitute He forgave, so JC’s romance is well-grounded. “Lack of mass communication” is in the lyrics of a song from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, implying it was a problem in 33 AD but it’s debatable if the worldwide links that exist today help or hinder Mr Leishman’s JC.
