The
Oldest Book on the Shelf Challenge
Hosted by Hell & Purgatory Book Reviews
(now, Cosy Up Book Reviews)
It’s not a must and is all about reading this books you never got around
to reading, in, like, forever and so....
The Ultimate Quest for Redemption
Prod dets
The
Fallen (the fallen and Leviathan) 1
Series: the fallen, omnibus 1
Pub: orig; 2003, Simon Pulse
Author: Thomas E. Sniegoski
Genre:
Format: paperback (lar); (b1) 262pp w/ 15
chap (b2) 255pp w/15 chap
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
On
his eighteenth birthday, Aaron begins to hear strange voices and convinced he
is going insane. But having moved from foster home to foster home, Aaron
doesn’t know whom he can trust. He wants to confide in the cute girl from
class, but fears she’ll confirm he’s crazy.
Then
a mysterious man begins following Aaron. He knows about Aaron’s troubled past
and his new powers. And he has a message for Aaron: as the son of a mortal and
an angel, Aaron has been chosen to redeem the fallen.
Aaron
tries to dismiss the news and resists his supernatural abilities. But he must
accept his newfound heritage – and quickly. For the dark powers are gaining
strength, and are hell-bent on destroying him...
Thoughts
This
were a about a ‘boy’ who is half angel half human and he’s job, or his
abilities are what are going to save the world, or maybe more the angel
population.
They
are very boy books. They are gory and they are fun.
Blurb book 1 The Fallen
Aaron Corbet isn't a bad
kid -- he's just a little different. Archangel On the eve of his eighteenth
birthday, Aaron dreams of a darkly violent landscape. He can hear the sounds of
weapons clanging, the screams of the stricken, and another sound he cannot
quite decipher. But gazing upward at the sky, he suddenly understands. It is
the sound of great wings, angels' wings, beating the air unmercifully as
hundreds of armoured warriors descend on the battlefield. Orphaned since birth,
Aaron is suddenly discovering newfound -- and sometimes supernatural --
talents. But not until he is approached by two men does he learn the truth
about his own destiny, and his role as a liaison between angels, mortals, and
Powers both good and evil, some of whom are hell-bent on his own destruction....
This
book was all about him learning what he is, about him becoming what he is, and
the love interest that he’s not meant to be with. At least not yet.
It’s
got a bit about his past and it has him losing in life, but then, what else is
there to get a person free? It’s a little slow but interesting with a lot of information
and untrusting people who want him to trust him. Yeah, it’s not confusing, just
a little complicated but it gets going near the end and makes you need what
happens next.
Blurb book 2, Leviathan
Eighteen-year-old Aaron
is on the run from the Powers that killed his foster parents and took his
younger brother, Steven. With his dog, Gabriel, and Camael, a former Power, he
is drawn north to a small town in Maine. Here Aaron, who still hasn't accepted
his newfound heritage, finds comfort in the isolated, tight-knit community. But
when Camael and Gabriel go missing, and their landlady suddenly attacks Aaron,
he is forced to learn more about the War in Heaven and the many Powers that are
fighting for dominance...of humankind.
This
one get’s him out of town, has you see something that will become more apparent
in the later books, things that are twisty and turny and will be explained
better the further we go alone.
But
that’s not really what this books about, just the last thing I remember, maybe
because it’s the last thing I read?!
It’s
about a giant monster that is eating the power off the people in the town, the
rest? Well they are all mind whipped by this creature.
Aaron
is pulled to the thing and ends up needing to save the people trapped, mostly
because he ends up finding himself in the same position.
This
book is where the gross comes into the story and it becomes very much a ‘boy’
book.
This
is more about the power he has inside him, and about growing it, about needing
to understand for himself what’s going on inside him, while Camael tells him
over and over that he needs to head to the angels to free them.
It
is unfortunately like that, but Aaron sees it the way it’s playing out and so
that’s a lot better than other books I’ve read.
He,
he, I really liked the parts in Gabriel, the dogs, really, funny, and he seemed
to catch the mind of a dog really well—huh, wonder if you could read something
into that?! Whatever, it was like, the highlight of the book. I loved it,
awesome.
I
liked this book, well, out of the two this one was my fav, mostly because it
was faster paced and didn’t hold all that much information (reading it in a
time that I really wanted to read something else made not wanting information
highway, really I should have read something else, but there wasn’t much else,
all of them are the same).
The
sad thing in it all is that I’m not sure if I want to or will ever get around
to finishing off the series, though it’s in my thoughts, and I haven’t gotten
rid of this book yet, just in case.
Series
[tb], the fallen 2,
the Fallen 3, The Fallen 4,
☼☼☼
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