The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis (BOOK REVIEW)

 

“When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”

Screwtape is an experienced demon and knows how to corrupt and take over a soul. Wormwood is a young and inexperienced demon with his first assigned soul. In the Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis takes us through the letters that Screwtape writes to his nephew, Wormwood. In these letters Screwtape guides his nephew on how to lead his "patient" (a human soul) to sin and hell. Wormwood's patient starts going to church, and takes care of his mother. Wormwood follows his "patient" around and tempts him though all circumstances to do the wrong thing. As Wormwood's "patient go through the ups and downs of his life Wormwood is in his ear trying to keep him in the lowest of lows. Wormwood is right there beside his "patient" trying to slowly lead him to hell and eternal death the whole time. 

The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis was so cool and such an amazing book. The perspective of the morality that evil follows is so amazing to see. C.S. Lewis gives us insider information to evil. It was so cool to see how evil can think. This book gives us the ability to avoid temptation and to notice how evil can work its way into our own hearts and how to avoid it. C.S. Lewis is a legend. He is one of the greatest Christian thinkers, in my opinion. With the legacy that C.S. Lewis has left through his books, this world is a better place. 

I give this book a 9.5 out of 10 and would recommend it for ages 12+

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Happy Reading!

-Ariana :)