Throughout the story, the author doesn’t force the reader to believe anything about Smith, and we are never taken to see the angel or the gold plates but only hear about it from him. We also see members of the society mocking his story, and we also see people who support him at great emotional and financial perspectives. We get to see him and his brother Hyrum through his family’s perspective, who at first know him as hard-working and honest man before they later learn of the wild tales. Smith is a part of the father-son tension that arises in the novel. Some believe this story almost immediately, and others take their time to feel it in their hearts while others scorn. As they come to learn about his story of gold plates and an angel, each reaches different conclusions. The author tells of a story of a fictional family whose lives are interwoven with Joseph Smith right from the start. But as earlier stated, this is done in the future books in the series. In addition unless already familiar with history, some readers may not tell the difference between purely fictional people versus those who existed in real life. Unfortunately, he doesn’t notate them in this first volume though he does that in later books, and for those who aren’t familiar with the many texts in this book, they don’t realize these are the words of the living men. In this series debut novel, Lund draws liberally from written accounts of scripture and church history to put words relating many of the events into the mouths of those who spoke them. Pillar of Light is the first book in a long and riveting series of historical books that illustrate the origin of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints –Mormons through the narration of a fictional family. He and his deceased wife are parents of seven children. During his service in the educational system that spanned over three and half decades, Lund played the roles of curriculum writer, seminary teacher, institute director and teacher, zone administrator, and director of college curriculum. He’s also written several books that explore the gospel of Jesus and a trilogy that explore humans relationship with God and how our heavenly father expresses his love to his children. The author also did diverse graduate work in Hebrew and New Testament studies at the University of Judaism and Pepperdine University, respectively. Lund received his bachelors of art and master’s degrees in Sociology from BYU. He is also a famous LDS fiction writer having authored Kingdom and the Crown and The Work and the Glory series, and also theological non-fiction books for the Latter-Day Saints such as Hearing the Voice of the Lord and The Coming of the Lord. He was also a general authority of the LDS Church from 2008 to 2008. Gerald Lund was an American author of historical fiction, Christian, literature and fiction books.
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