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    The Canary List: A Novel

    Written by Sigmund Brouwer

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

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    Protected by the dark of night, Jaimie Piper runs. But is anywhere safe when Evil is hunting you?

    She's just a twelve year-old girl, bumped around between foster homes and relegated to school classes for challenged kids, those lagging in their test scores or with behavioral issues. But her real problem is that she can sense something the other kids can't-something dark. Something compelling her to run for her life.

    All Crockett Grey wants is to mark the anniversary of his daughter's death alone.

    But when his student Jaimie comes to him, terrified, her need for protection collides with his grief, and a tangled web of bizarre events sends them both spiraling toward destruction.

    Crockett's one hope of getting his life back is to uncover the mysterious secrets of Jaimie's past and her strange gift. It isn't long before his discoveries lead him to a darker conspiracy, secrets guarded by the highest seat of power in the world-the Vatican.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 21, 2011
    ISBN9780307933812
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    The Canary List: A Novel
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    Sigmund Brouwer

    Sigmund Brouwer is the award-winning author of over 100 books for young readers, with close to 4 million books in print. He has won the Christy Book of the Year and an Arthur Ellis Award, as well as being nominated for two TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards and the Red Maple Award. For years, Sigmund has captivated students with his Rock & Roll Literacy Show and Story Ninja program during his school visits, reaching up to 80,000 students per year. His many books in the Orca Sports and Orca Currents lines have changed the lives of countless striving readers. Sigmund lives in Red Deer, Alberta.

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    • 3/5
      The canary Jamie Piper is a twelve-year-old foster child that has an unusual ability to sense evil. She turns to Crockett for help but things spiral out of control.The beginning of the book was interesting but it slowed down and dragged a bit. I was frustrated with the character of Crockett Grey. He found himself in situations beyond his control, but he seemed to just stumble through them. His life events just kept getting worse and worse, but he reacted to them as a simpleton. Overall it was an interesting subject and was worth the read. It was just not my favorite book by Sigmund Brouwer.
    • 5/5
      I really couldn't get into this book because I don't know much about the Catholic church and so I couldn't follow what was going on. Now that being said it was a good book and I know that if I knew more about that religion that I would have loved the book. I was really well written and easy to follow. I was organized well and I found all of the characters very relate able. I fell in love with the little girl and was so glad that it did turn out well. I also had a rough time staying interested and it took me awhile to read the book which is not usual for me. I think it you know about the Catholic religion then you maybe able to get interested and love this book.
      FTC-I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review
    • 3/5
      Pretty decent suspense novel featuring a Vatican conspiracy with supernatural elements. Starts off lively and fast paced, gets a bit too pleased with itself for its convolutions of plot, but overall decent. I don't think I've read more than a scant handful of Christian novels, so I thought I'd branch out.

      Teacher and surfer Crockett Grey (our hero, with that name, you know he'll be a rugged individualist) is having his once a year Scotch whiskey drunk fest at home on the anniversary of his young daughter's death. He's shocked to see what appears to be his daughter's face at the window, but it turns out to be his 12 year old student Jaimie. She's afraid to go back to her foster home, because a man is there whom she can sense is evil. She can sense darkness in people. Crockett has the werewithal to bring Jaimie over to his elderly neighbor's, and neighbor Nana drives them to the foster home, which they find burned down and surrounded by cops. When Crockett is framed and falsely accused of viewing child pornography, he has to find out what's going on. It all gets rather complicated from there; suffice to say that priests, psychologists, Satan worshippers, a Vatican conspiracy, DNA research, witches, pedophilia, child abuse, and demons feature. It's not graphic. The author leaves the demon/witch thing up to interpretation and the reader could take the psychological interpretation. I'd recommend it to the Christian fiction suspense fans, but maybe not devout Catholics. More on the Evangelical side, probably.
    • 3/5
      The Canary List is a religious suspense thriller in the vein of Dan Brown. I had mixed feelings about this book. I wasn't sure if Mr. Brouwer meant for it to be YA or adult fiction. I felt that the subject of the story and the focus on the actions of the adult characters seemed to indicate that it was for more mature audiences, but the style of the novel felt more YA. I also felt like a lot of the drama around the occurrences in Crockett's life bordered on the unrealistic - I spent much of the novel thinking, "Really? I don't think they would react like that!" Nevertheless, I was intrigued by the subject, and the action and drama carried me along to the (somewhat expected) slap-in-the-face ending.I also was intrigued by the meaning behind the title of the book - which I cannot reveal here for risk of spoiling the story.All in all, a good afternoon read if you're a fan of Dan Brown.I received a free review copy of this book from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
    • 5/5
      Demons. Evil. Childhood abuse. Satanic Rituals. Perfect possession. Vatican City. In the end, you’re still not sure what side of the fence you’re on –even if you believe in angels and demons. I mean, at least I wasn’t. Either it’s all real or it’s the most elaborate scam that anyone has ever attempted. As far as the book goes, I am not sure that it matters which story you choose to believe. You’re pulled into the story right at the beginning, and Brouwer doesn’t realize you until well after the book has ended. Maybe things wouldn’t have played out the way that they did if Crockett wasn’t already vulnerable, if he wasn’t “that type of a guy”. Maybe it’s not only the abused that have cracks in their psyche that gives the devil room to play. This is not your typical good conquers evil story. In the end, good isn’t all that good. It’s just not evil. While some readers may take this to be commentary about the Catholic Church, I believe that it speaks more to the depravity of the human condition. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be any of the characters, and I honestly wouldn’t want to know. But the characters were real and relatable. I think everyone would hope that they would have the strength and determination to fight the way that Crockett did, but those that came to his assistance is not available to everyone. It’s hard to mention the abuse that’s been meted out by the hands of Catholic Priests and not have a reaction. Brouwer does an amazing job of playing on the fear of the far reaches of the Vatican. The reaction to the abuse is intensely stronger when on thinks that the Catholic Church is a breeding ground for pedophiles and an institution with enough reach to cover it up. There was one spot that I didn’t like, the writing confused me. It was at the end of Chapter 63 when the Cardinal comes into the picture. But other than this part, I thoroughly enjoyed the suspense in the book. This is the first book that I’ve read by Brouwer, but it’s not the first that I’ve heard of him. I know that I will definitely be reading more of him. I received a copy of this book free in exchange for my honest review.
    • 3/5
      An okay book. I really enjoyed the 1st half of the book. The second half not so much. I kept getting confused and the political plots left me lost as time went on. I gave this book 3 stars only because the I did get absorbed in the beginning. It's to bad the second half lost the emotional connection that I had with the characters because when that happened the book just went BLAH.
    • 4/5
      The Canary List is a masterfully crafted, chilling, and thought-provoking story written by Sigmund Brouwer about a twelve-year old girl named Jaimie Piper who has no difficulty detecting evil in people. Jaime is a twelve-year old girl that has been in and out of foster homes since she was an infant. Due to her attitude and behavior she has been placed in classes for challenged students where she comes in contact with, teacher, Crockett Grey. Crocket has his on agenda in the beginning; he just wants to relive the anniversary of his daughter’s death. But that is not to be. Jaimie comes to him terrified and begging for his help which starts them on a downward spiral of bizarre events that leads them to the Vatican.I will definitely pass this book on to others with a recommendation for reading. Mr. Brouwer grabbed my attention and kept it throughout the book with his masterful crafting of the story web.The Canary List was provided by Waterbook Press free of charge for an honest review. The opinions in this review are my own.
    • 3/5
      Imagine that there is true evil in the world in the guise of demons. These demons have the capability of possessing humans and perverting them to suit their needs. Now imagine that these possessed humans have infiltrated government and world religions including religious hierarchy. This is the world that 12-year-old Jaimie Piper and her teacher Crockett Grey have been pushed into in The Canary List by Sigmund Brouwer.Jaimie knows that there is someone or something after her and seeks protection from the only adult she feels she can trust, a teacher. Unfortunately that teacher is an unmarried male and he lives alone. Someone uses this to exploit the situation and remove Jaimie from Crockett's protection under the guise of him possibly being a pedophile and in possession of child pornography. It doesn't help that the one person that can attest to Jaimie staying outside of the home under the supervision of a woman, Crockett's elderly neighbor Nana, has disappeared. Throw a very restrained child psychologist (Dr. Madelyne Mackenzie) into the mix along with an exorcist (Father O'Hare), the foster care system, Satanism, a crazed stalker, add in the Catholic Church and a comatose Pope and you've got a mess.The underlying premise to this story is that Jaimie is genetically predisposed toward being sensitive to the demon-possessed. She is, in effect, the "canary" in detecting evil. Although there are others like her around the world, they are few and far between. These women have been used by the Catholic Church for centuries to ensure that evil does not gain a hold on the church, especially its cardinals or would-be popes. The intrigue involved in uncovering who is and isn't evil within the church and their individual motives and power struggles made for some interesting reading. I had difficulty accepting the author's premise (yes I know it is fiction) that demons are using priests to exploit children as the excuse for the church-related pedophilia cases. The action was all over the place, much like a rollercoaster ride. At times it was hard to keep track of all of the scheming as well as plot twists and turns. I won't tell you how it ends but the ending left me saying "what?" and wondering what exactly had happened. The only characters that seemed realistic were Jaimie and Crockett. They had their flaws and frailties and weren't afraid to show them. This, in my opinion helped to show their humanity. The others were somewhat flat and seemed to be more caricatures than characters. The Canary List isn't a bad story nor was it badly written but there was just something that kept it from being little more than a decent read.
    • 4/5
      In Vatican City, Italy, the Pope is in an extended coma, leaving the Catholic Church with a dangerous power vacuum. On the other side of the world, in Santa Monica, California, 12-year-old Jaime--an orphan in foster care--thinks about Crockett Grey, the teacher of her Adaptive Behavior Classroom, and how he seems like he would be a really good dad. And in a room somewhere Dr. Madeleyne Mackenzie, child psychiatrist and Jaime's legal custodian, is celebrating a black mass with the other members of her coven.Depending on the reader's religious orientation, The Canary List by Sigmund Brouwer can be read either as a faith-based thriller or as a fantasy with Christian overtones. Believers will enjoy Brouwer's narrative as a simplified response to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Non-Christians, as embodied by the novel's central character, skeptic Crockett Grey, can enjoy the debate built into a storyline that avoids sermonizing while presenting some provoking arguments, such as whether or not demons and witches actually exist and whether murder or deceit is ever acceptable when committed for a greater good.While all the characters are fairly stereotypical, the central players are likeable and the action is non-stop. The ending, delivered with a touch of sly humor, leaves room for further interpretation. Sometimes the dialogue is irritatingly repetitious or overly explanatory, suggesting the author had younger readers in mind. But, as Christian fiction, The Canary List should provide solid entertainment for its intended audience. (Note that this review is based on an Advance Reading Copy that contained quite a few word-processing errors. Hopefully, these will be corrected before publication.)
    • 4/5
      The Canary List by Sigmund Brouwer is a book I would not normally choose to read since I am not a huge fan of conspiracy novels, however, I was entertained by this story and am glad I choose this title to read and review.Crockett Grey is a school teacher who finds his life is turned upside down when he ventures to help a student of his by the name of Jamie. Jamie unceremoniously seeks out Crockett at his home one night when she feels threatened by an evil presence. Crockett tries to do the correct thing but his actions are manipulated by a higher force and his life is suddenly in shambles. To fix his situation, he begins to investigate Jamie, her past, and her involvement. As he learns more, he finds himself learning about the Catholic church, demons, and a conspiracy that dates back to the 1500’s…and somehow Jamie is the key to stop an infiltration of evil from overtaking the Catholic church.Sigmund Brouwer has written a wonderfully entertaining story about good and evil. Taken from the perspective of Crockett, a man who doesn’t believe in any spiritual world or even God, makes this a book anyone can read; it doesn’t preach to the reader.This story does heavily involve the Catholic church and for those who are sensitive to their religion, this might be a bit offensive as it is focusing on the Catholic organization and how evil is infiltrating it’s ranks, up to the Pope. Best to read this as intended, as a fictitious story.There were many characters in the story and each of them were properly developed, not just the main characters. This helped enhance the overall believability of the story. You could tell a lot of thought was put into these secondary characters because their background information was provided which helped the reader in understanding their motives. This was even more evident with the main characters.Another plus was the twists and turns that Brouwer keep inserting into the story. When you thought you understood or figured out the main intent, something would be written that made you reconsider what you thought would happen. Great technique in keeping the reader reading and second guessing their guesses!I was pleased with the ending because it didn’t really appease the reader. Instead it made you contemplate the story and all it’s details. To me this is a good sign of a good book; when you finish reading it, you still think about it.I would recommend this book to any reader who loves mystery, suspense, and even history because although this is a work of fiction, there is some historical information intertwined. And due to the content of the story which does mention demons and Satanic rituals, I wouldn’t recommend this book to children but those in their teens or above.
    • 3/5
      Crockett Grey is a teacher of troubled children. He has gone through a terrible tragedy and all he wants to do is start his summer vacation by forgetting his problems. Little does he know that one of his student’s, Jaimie Piper, is on her way to his house with a whole new, terrifying set of problems of her own. Now Crockett is in a race for his life, trying to solve Jaimie’s nightmare in order to end his own, even if that means taking on the largest religious organization on the planet! The Canary List is a standard “good vs. evil” suspense story. Big, bad evil! But do consider yourself warned: Anyone sensitive to controversial criticism regarding the Catholic Church may not care for this book. At times it can be incredibly disturbing, due to the intense subject matter, namely child abuse, some of which has been well documented in real life. This is the first book I’ve ever read by Mr. Brouwer and I, personally, found it to be quite intriguing. It is very reminiscent of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. And while The Canary List is a work of fiction, it is written in a manner that seems to imply that it may be based on factual occurrences. Makes a person wonder…(Received complimentary copy for review purposes only.)