Review: An Awesome Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2012
Emily is an angel, one who's been created to save, judge, defend and forgive a human for the lives they live and any indiscretions they may commit. Being an angel isn't easy for her. Throughout the lives she's lived, she's come to know what it's like to be human, something she has a hard time dealing with as time goes by. Yet she's determined to learn about the race the Lord has created in hopes of helping him and his beloved children further understand what makes humans who, and what, they truly are.Her soul mate, Matt, has been trained alongside her. He's the one who will fight for everything they believe in, a warrior who's heart belongs forever to Emily. His skills as warrior have been honed to the point where he'd do anything to protect the woman, (or angel, in this case), he loves. Yet he knows that, first and foremost, he must follow through on the orders his Heavenly father has bestowed upon him. While each life he and Emily live gets more difficult than the one before it, he knows their doing so will give the angels and the entire Heavens a better understanding of the emotions and the battles humans go through every day.Thrust into a life she never expected to live, Emily finds herself questioning the world around her. She never imagined experiencing the difficulties she encounters every day. Nor did she ever imagine loving someone else other than Matt. The feelings Jason evokes in her rock the foundations of her beliefs to the very core. She feels torn deep inside and wonders if she can complete the tasks that have been set before her.As understanding begins to slowly sink in, Emily realizes she may have gotten more than she bargained for. The confusion about her feelings and her actions within the new world she lives continue to split her soul into pieces, driving a wedge between her, Matt, and the people who now share her existence. Yet she does her best to keep her faith intact, even though it continues to crumble with every day that passes.Torn between her duty and the turbulent emotions that try to engulf her with every step she takes, she soon realizes that Matt is her saving grace. With him by her side, she'll be able to meet the adversity surrounding them head on, but only if she'll allow herself to believe in the world around and the choices she now has to make. Only then can her faith in humanity and the Lord's plans be restored.As children, we've been taught to believe in God's goodness and the fact that He has a higher and better plan for us. The bible speaks of angels and demons but in certain instances it doesn't truly define what makes these beings who they are. We're also given glimpses of the hierarchy of the angelic order as well as that of demons, but we never truly grasp their full significance.While this book is just a story, the meaning behind Amy's written words allow us a glimpse into what Heaven and Hell on Earth would be like. We're able to feel the passion, the disappointments, the heartaches, and the triumphs the characters go through in order to assert themselves within the world they live in. A world Amy did a wonderful job in compiling. A world so vivid that the reader will find him/herself immersed within it completely.Granted, this book is a work of fiction and it isn't exactly a deeply religious story. Although there are elements within it that I think anyone from any religion can certainly relate to. We all have our faiths and we all believe in God, in one way or another. As the story states in some instances, we all need faith in order to achieve what we set out to do. Sometimes, we can lose that faith, yet it's never truly far from us. We just have to see the bigger picture. We just have to believe and place our trust in the Lord's hands. Somehow, some way, everything will eventually turn out to be just the way we want them to be.I absolutely loved this book. There were parts of it that spoke to me in ways I never imagined. Amy's writing is quite powerful and is able to stir a person's emotions with every turn of the page. At least, I think so. She's beautifully constructed her version of what Heaven, the angels, and what God would be like. The Angel Chronicles is, and definitely will be, a quite moving and thought-provoking series. I look forward to reading the next installment of the series once it becomes available.