Review: I didn't even like the preview...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
I was drawn to this story because I was looking up other reviews by Karen Doering, who gave my book,Shadows of Things to Come(formerly titled Unyoked), 4 stars. She's not my personal friend. She's just someone who graciously agreed to review one of my books. I was intrigued as to why she would possibly give anything only one star, so I had to take a look at this via Amazon's free "Look Inside" feature. Boy, I am so glad I didn't pay $3 to read the whole thing!From the get go, I found the story presumptuous and irritating. The Archangel Gabriel telling Jesus to wait? "Just a moment, Jesus". Really? He's Jesus! He's King! You don't tell Him to wait a minute!Second: The idea that this angel used to be a woman who lived on earth? Completely theologically unsound, according to the Bible. It can't happen! Angels and humans are totally different created beings. Read the Bible and find out. It's in there. Also, you can know what happens after you die...if you read the Bible. God told us all very clearly in His Word. We just need to read it and learn it. (My apologies to the author if he's not going for a story with a Biblical worldview. It seemed to me that he was...with all the talk of Jesus, God, the Devil and angels.)Third: The near hypnotic suggestion at the end of Chapter 1? "Now I want you to close your eyes and relax?" Really? If I close my eyes, I won't be able to read the rest of the story. Not that I want to, anyway, but...Yeah. Okay. That just struck me as being absolutely ridiculous.I didn't set out to be mean in writing this, and I'm sure some enraged commenters are going to lambaste me for writing a review without reading the full story. I'm sorry. I just can't be bothered to pay the $3+ to buy the entire story and read it. I thought the sample was just that bad. ...I will say that, since I haven't read the whole thing, I'm giving this two stars instead of one. I imagine that, if I did read the whole thing, I would have to lower the rating, but I'm going to err on the side of fairness. Sorry. I'm just being honest. I don't like this story. It's just not good, IMHO.