Review: The Least Impressive of the Warrior Kind series.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2014
Well the book seem to have been written in some kind of rush. I felt like the author penned it because he felt the compunction to write the story of Ellanara. The pages are considerably less that the previous four books.Again, typo errors usually homophones. This book kind of started out differently and I was already missing the first person narration when it was thankfully introduced about 30% into the book (although I know some people actually did not like it).First, the pros for me was the new dimension of sci-fic introduced to the book. I liked the lead character, Salanicus. I was really not feeling the Roric descendant called Loric.Next the cons, this book is supposed to be a Christian Sci-fic but I found it a bit too erotic. It also had far less spiritual insight than it's previous books. For a Christian book, this does not go with the truth of Christianity. Christians should know that God never fails His own, the worst man can accuse God of is the belief that God puts difficulties/laws that man cannot overcome/meet, thereby causing him to sin and fall short of the Glory and Grace of God. This book lies about the faithfulness of God in this regard. The Valley Landers had been serving God faithfully for 200 years and this book tell us that their hope was placed on a sleeping Ellanara or that God placed their hope on a sleeping/hibernating Ellanara. This does not ring true with my understanding of God. Sure, the stay of the Israelites in Egypt for 400 years without any known penance does come to mind but the Bible does not say that they were faithful in worship; a contemplative fact as they were worshiping an idol less than 2 months in the wilderness. So for the author to call this a Christian book and say God forsook a people devoted to Him does not ring true for "He suffered no man to do them any harm, rebuking nations for their sake; saying touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm". God's faithfulness exceeds the witnessing in this book. Also, the story was filled with far to much sappy erotic loves. It was especially very sappy for the author to bring Nara and Abby to life. It really makes no sense. The real Nara and Abby are in "Heaven", so what is the use of it? It was just too sappy. The author seem to have forgotten that although he links the experiences of the network holograms to their original characters, these characters actually exists in themselves in after life without linking themselves to the holograms. He wrote like giving the network life by "God" was actually fulfilling life for the original beings! Then there is the unexplained genealogy of Loric. No name for the father or mother even. And why has Zevin and Naya aged so fast, from my understanding in book 3, they were supposed to live for about 600 years and yet they were already aged at 200+ years. I really had so many disappointments with this book. The spiritual message was also not much.So the book really is a two star for me. I really am not sure why I am giving it a three star.