A review by trinforeman
The Fallen by Thomas E. Sniegoski
4.0
Okay I would really like to give this book a 3.5 stars. It was a wonderful spin on the fallen angels.
Aaron Corbet was just a regular teenage boy, with a bad childhood. He never knew his father and his mother died giving birth to him. Since then he's been funneled through the system until finally landing in the Stanley household. Now, having a home, he has become a top notch student, carries on an after-school job and has a loyal companion (his dog Gabriel). This all suddenly changes when he turns eighteen. For some reason that he cannot explain, he begins to understand the words his crush is speaking, in Portuguese. He understands exactly what his dog wants. Not only that, his dog can understand him.
Thinking he's crazy he seeks out the help of his childhood psychiatrist. This does nothing but confuse Aaron more. It's not until he is forced to save the life of the "person" he loves most that he realizes there is something truly special about himself.
I can understand why some people won't like this novel. It is VERY enriched in Christianity. Not exactly a popular subject. But people have to understand, where there are angels, there is God. Angels, Demons, the fallen, anything of that nature has it's roots in Christianity and to ignore that would be to undermine or negate the subject you have chosen to write about. Just sayin'.
Aaron Corbet was just a regular teenage boy, with a bad childhood. He never knew his father and his mother died giving birth to him. Since then he's been funneled through the system until finally landing in the Stanley household. Now, having a home, he has become a top notch student, carries on an after-school job and has a loyal companion (his dog Gabriel). This all suddenly changes when he turns eighteen. For some reason that he cannot explain, he begins to understand the words his crush is speaking, in Portuguese. He understands exactly what his dog wants. Not only that, his dog can understand him.
Thinking he's crazy he seeks out the help of his childhood psychiatrist. This does nothing but confuse Aaron more. It's not until he is forced to save the life of the "person" he loves most that he realizes there is something truly special about himself.
I can understand why some people won't like this novel. It is VERY enriched in Christianity. Not exactly a popular subject. But people have to understand, where there are angels, there is God. Angels, Demons, the fallen, anything of that nature has it's roots in Christianity and to ignore that would be to undermine or negate the subject you have chosen to write about. Just sayin'.