Being back here
is strange. It feels very disconnected to me, and yet if I’m to believe
Virture, all this turmoil was caused because the grave was empty. Because my
dad his emptiness below the ground. All this because I wanted truth.
Genre: Speculative
Fiction/Supernatural
Target Audience: Girls 15+
Subjects: Faith, Loss, Angels, Fear
Summary: The fear is growing. Damien is
back, truth is being revealed, new enemies are moving in and the fear is
pouring off of them all. With her gift of sight, Brielle can literally see it.
What she doesn’t see is all the reasons for the fear. Jake is afraid they won’t
have a future together after all, now that the ring from the Throne has
disappeared. Why has the Throne taken it back? And replaced it with Damien’s
dagger? She doesn’t see her father recalling the last time he heard angelic
music – the day her mother vanished – not died as Brielle has been told all her
life – vanished right out of her sick bed she lay dying in. She just see the
past that Marco and Oliva have had to wrestle with. But she sees the fear in
all of them. And she feels it in herself. Evil has targeted her and has no
intention of letting her go.
Notes: The second in the Angel Eyes
Trilogy, Shannon Dittemore speculates on what a halo might be and what kind of
experience someone would have if they could see the spiritual realm. The story began
in book one with a retelling of the story of Elisha praying that the eyes of
his servant would be opened to see the angelic warriors surrounding the enemy
army and how the servant saw the spiritual realm (Found in 2 Kings 6:8-23).
Then it introduced the story of two eighteen year olds, ordinary humans who are
given a special gift from God. When wearing the halo of his angel guardian,
Jake was given the gift of healing. When wearing the halo after Jake gave it to
her, Brielle is given the gift of seeing the spiritual realm – the angels and
demons and the physical manifestation of feelings such as fear and love. In
this book their story continues. The demons desperately want to get their hands
on these gifted teens and will stop at nothing to do so. In the midst of
fighting that battle, the grave of Brielle’s mother is uncovered and discovered
to be empty, forcing her dad to reveal the truth to her. The ring that appeared
to Jake’s guardian from the Throne that represented Jake and Brielle’s future
together has vanished and been replaced with the sword Damien used to stab
Brielle in the last book.
The application/lesson focus in the story is actually
the same as the first book - fear and the power it holds over its victims in
contrast to the freedom from fear that is found in Christ. In this one Brielle
has to learn the power believers hold over the powers of darkness. A powerful
angel tells Brielle that it’s the song of the redeemed that causes darkness to
tremble. Jake and Brielle recite Psalm 91 when battling the enemy.
Overall
– this series is speculative, but in it’s speculation it does not contradict
Scripture in any way, but rather supports and even quotes it. I highly
recommend this one!
Recommendation Scale: 5/5
Reviewer: J:-)mi
Romans 8:37-39 – No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us. For I am
convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither
the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thank you to Thomas Nelson (Book Sneeze) for providing me with a free review copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Thank you to Thomas Nelson (Book Sneeze) for providing me with a free review copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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I just read the first book in this series and quite liked it! Glad to hear this one's good, too.
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