When I read a Christian fiction, I hope for a couple of things. One of them is appropriate language used in how the characters think about each other and relate to one another. Another is a sense of hope--it is the hope of Christ that I long for as I read the story in someone's life, whether at the beginning or at the end of the story, but I look for it somewhere in there. We are called to be in the world, but not of it. The scripture says in Philippians 4:8 " Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." We are to be wise about what we think about and so that is why I am very careful about what secular fiction I read. I have very different expectations of secular fiction. I read two of Jodi Piccoult's novels a few years ago and my stomach was left in knots at ...