This is a mind-blowing story. Wow. Angel Fall is Coleman Luck’s first novel. It was written over a period of 25 years, and it just rocked my world. Here’s the summary from the back of the book:
“The wind we know is only a shadow of something far greater.
Lighting is falling in sheets.
A wind is blowing that is larger than this world.
In the middle of the strangest storm in history, an airliner crashes into the ocean and only three young people survive–a brother and his two sisters. But they are not together and the ocean is not on earth.
Alex, Amanda, and Tori Lancaster have entered Boreth, a world of ancient devastation and deep evil ruled by the Worwil–seven creatures of immense power who existed before any world began. Through this world they must travel, into terror and temptation, every choice taking them closer to endless night. Scarred with the fires of hell and heaven, their pasts are torn from their souls.
But shadowing each of them is a mysterious Being covered in scars who has faced ten-thousand battles. A being filled with the longing of ages. A longing to heal the broken-hearted.
With dark, glistening strands from Lewis, Lovecraft, and Tolkien, the cloth of Angel Fall has been woven. But the journey it weaves is not just for Alex, Amanda, and Tori. . . it is for all those who cannot find their way home.”
I have to say that I was really intrigued with just the first chapter and got really excited by the time I got to the fourth chapter. If you love weird, it is a key element in this book. Wonderfully so. If you love Christian speculative fiction, you will devour this book. I do and I did. I think I’m going blind from reading this book for many hours in a row for many days in a row. My distance vision is kind of messed up right now.
I don’t want to analyze this book right now since I still have to really process what I’ve read. But the effect on me was astounding, and I had to post a preliminary review to let YOU know about it so that you can go READ IT!
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