“Thomas Locke” is Bunn’s pseudonymn.
So you’ve got an already-successful Christian author with a large fan base, writing in a popular genre with a wide readership, and a major publisher to produce and market the book–golden opportunity, right? An opportunity to win ground in the culture for Christ’s Kingdom.
Wrong. Instead, all these resources came together to make, well, a bunch of nothing.
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/review-of-christian-novel-emissary
T. Davis Bunn had all this going for him when he set out to write his first fantasy novel, Emissary, three years ago. So he decided to write a “completely mainstream, totally secular” fantasy novel–that is, he cobbled together a thorough collection of fantasy cliches: and the big huge Christian publisher, Zondervan, published it.
Waste, waste, waste.
This kind of thing always mystifies me. If someone has the gift of writing, why on earth waste it on nonsense that nobody is interested in reading.
I love fantasy–but so much of it is just chopped liver that’s gone round the bend.