Review: The State of Being Human
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2013
Erick Angell isn't like other men. In fact, he's not anything like other men. That's because he's not a man at all. Erick is an angel, disgraced and banished from Heaven until he learns his lesson Erick is forced to live as one of the very people that he despises most, a human man. If he doesn't learn to understand the humans and learn to feel for them, he will never return to his home in Heaven. He will never rejoin his brothers and sisters as a superior being and he will be doomed to live out a human life.This short story is the prequel to the rest of the Dark Knight series. This is where we find out all about who Erick really is and how he came to live on Earth as an ordinary man. I really enjoyed finding out what really happened and I'm definitely looking forward to finding out more through the rest of the books. There are several which all detail the events that happen to Erick while he is trapped in his human form and unable to live the life he's always been accustomed to.I'm definitely interested in learning about Erick and the humans that he is slowly coming to better understand and even respect. He may be starting well on his journey toward forgiveness and redemption but is it going to be enough? Is he going to actually become one of the humans or at least learn to treat them the way that he's meant to? These are definitely some of the questions that went through my head while I was reading this story. My only complaint is that it was short but of course there's so much going on in the rest of the books that this was only a little backstory anyway.