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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
I was just not impressed. There was a lot of build up that went nowhere.
Let me just say straight off the bat that I wasn't as impressed with this instalment of the Fallen Series.
Now, don't get me wrong. I love the first two books and totally fell in love with Aaron and his dog like everyone else. I even rooted for Vilma even though I totally thought they'd be better off as just friends.
Anyway, the plot.
This particular plot had a lot of overlapping stories and points of view but it was easy enough to keep track of. Basically, Aaron and the rest of the Nephilim pack are continuing their battle against the ultimate evils of the earth only in tenfold. Like 'The End of Days" It's pretty gruesome.
The subordinate plot encompasses Dustin 'Dusty' Handy, weird name, who is the new bearer of the most ancient and powerful objects in all existence. The bad part of this is that the object was made for the destruction of the entire world and a whole bunch of evil, shadowy creatures are vying for its ownerships. So Dusty's basically running the entire book from these unknowns.
So the things I liked about this book. I liked that Sniegoski continues to develop new creatures, new evil creatures particularly, that seem to slither onto the earth and cause some serious trouble for the Nephilim pack. i love watching the development and maturity of the characters, especially Aaron and Vilma in their powers.
got slightly confused and slightly frustrated toward the end. I didn't understand how the end is supposed to satisfy anyone. Is there supposed to be another book after this. Because it says The End and I don't think that's a very good ending. It seemed unresolved. This fuelled my frustration because I want to know what happened to the Nephilims and Lucifer and everyone else. I'm not saying that they had to defeat all the evil on earth. I actually kind of liked that they didn't, but what happens. I just want to make sure everyone is good and dead.
So other then the ending, I pretty much enjoyed the book and would definitely read the next one, if there is one...
Now, don't get me wrong. I love the first two books and totally fell in love with Aaron and his dog like everyone else. I even rooted for Vilma even though I totally thought they'd be better off as just friends.
Anyway, the plot.
This particular plot had a lot of overlapping stories and points of view but it was easy enough to keep track of. Basically, Aaron and the rest of the Nephilim pack are continuing their battle against the ultimate evils of the earth only in tenfold. Like 'The End of Days" It's pretty gruesome.
The subordinate plot encompasses Dustin 'Dusty' Handy, weird name, who is the new bearer of the most ancient and powerful objects in all existence. The bad part of this is that the object was made for the destruction of the entire world and a whole bunch of evil, shadowy creatures are vying for its ownerships. So Dusty's basically running the entire book from these unknowns.
So the things I liked about this book. I liked that Sniegoski continues to develop new creatures, new evil creatures particularly, that seem to slither onto the earth and cause some serious trouble for the Nephilim pack. i love watching the development and maturity of the characters, especially Aaron and Vilma in their powers.
got slightly confused and slightly frustrated toward the end. I didn't understand how the end is supposed to satisfy anyone. Is there supposed to be another book after this. Because it says The End and I don't think that's a very good ending. It seemed unresolved. This fuelled my frustration because I want to know what happened to the Nephilims and Lucifer and everyone else. I'm not saying that they had to defeat all the evil on earth. I actually kind of liked that they didn't, but what happens. I just want to make sure everyone is good and dead.
So other then the ending, I pretty much enjoyed the book and would definitely read the next one, if there is one...
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
hopeful
inspiring
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Book was action packed. I am not a fan of open endings, so that was my disappointment with this book.
The battle of good and evil rages on. Can Aaron and his crew save the world from absolute evil?
Recenze: http://www.mfantasy.cz/2014/09/thomas-e-sniegoski-padli-andele-konec-dnu-recenze/
Fifth in the Fallen urban fantasy series for young adults and revolving around Aaron Corbet, a Nephilim around whom prophecy revolves, for he is the only angelic being who can forgive those who sinned.
My Take
I don't think Sniegoski likes angels. I dunno, but it's finally hitting me over the end what with how nasty the angels are in both of Sniegoski's series: Remy Chandler and this one, The Fallen. I think I read the prologue three times because I couldn't believe what Michaels did.
It's an interesting interpretation of Hell, that it's the horror Lucifer caused when he turned brother angel against brother angel. A horror that lives inside him. Sniegoski also interprets the coming of God and his light and its effect on what had existed in our universe before he created our world. Scary…!
There are scenes which are a little too vague for me, and I know that Sniegoski intends them this way, to drum up my curiosity. Only, they're too confusing to do what I think Sniegoski meant. His scary scenes are good, terrors that prey on our fear of the monsters in the dark. That child-god on the island. Fred sliding in his regrets about the old days. Jeremy's mother with her disturbing thoughts, as I wonder whose side is she on?
What I don't understand is how God doesn't see how his Powers have gone awry. How they've misinterpreted their mission so badly. Sure, I realize there's a lot for God to be paying attention to, lots to keep him busy. And it's been millennia. How does he miss all this? Nor do I understand how that island in the Aegean manages to slide under the Antarctic…
How can the angels have fallen so low? The excuses they use for tracking down the Nephilim are so lame, exactly the ones criminals use as an excuse for doing what they want.
No, I hate that trope. The one in which one of the characters has something important to tell, but no one has time to listen. I'm hoping that if someone has something to tell me, that I'll stop and listen right then and there.
Hmmm, doesn't seem that Verchiel has learned much of a lesson nor that he's all that full of repentance. We do learn where the spark began that turned the Powers from their true mission. The scariest part of all, to my mind.
The Story
Lorelei is willing to give her life for the chance to speak to God as the powerful Archons did. To ask for help, for the Powers still hunt them, for they are losing their companions as they battle to save humanity.
The Characters
Aaron Corbet still dreams of his foster family: little Stevie and Lori and Tom Stanley. The only family he remembers or loved. He has learned that he's Lucifer's son, which makes him the leader of the Nephilim, the Chosen One. Gabriel is the yellow Lab he brought back from the dead who now talks to Aaron.
Vilma Santiago is another Nephilim, and she and Aaron are in love. Her only family is her uncle, Aunt Edna, and cousin Nicole.
Saint Athanasius School and Orphanage is…
…where the Nephilim are now living. They see their mission as one of saving other Nephilim and humans caught in terrible situations. Lucifer Morningstar has repented. Milton is his tiny pet mouse. Lorelei shares her visions psychically with other Nephilim and studies Archon magick — and it's killing her. Janice, Kirk, Melissa, Samantha, Russell, and Cameron are most of the Nephilim. Even in an angelic gathering, there has to be one outsider, and that one is Jeremy Fox. William Dean is the antithesis of Jeremy. Handsome, outgoing, cocky. Kraus is now the healer for the Nephilim; he had been the blind healer for the Powers.
The Library at the orphanage had once belonged to Scholar, a former angel of the angelic host Principality and the keeper of knowledge.
Tobias Foster is a blind beggarman with a powerful horn given to him by the Archangel Gabriel. Corpse Riders, a.k.a., Riders, are demonic beasts who slip into our world and into our dead, and they are after that horn. Dustin "Dusty" Handy has always wanted to play the harmonica. Spenser was the dog he had loved. Jack is a trucker who gives Dusty a lift. Fred Leclaire picks up a hitchhiker.
Kemerovo Oblast, Russia is…
…a coal mine where the miners, Anatoli Olegushka, Pavel, Nikolai, Olik, Vadim, and others are trapped in a cave-in.
An island in the Aegean Sea was…
…there before Atlantis sank, and its inhabitants worshipped N'Ken-Thaa, the child-god and his family of monsters.
The backup Powers are…
…angels assigned to protect the earth, to keep God's favored world free of evil, of anything that might offend him. Only the Powers have gone off track. Leonard Michaels is the undercover identity for Geburah, the leader of the backup team Verchiel, the vanquished Powers leader, set in place along with Suria, Anfial is the tracker, Shebniel has a sadistic streak (and that's sayin' somethin'), Tandal, and Huzia.
Siberian tundra
N'Karr is the tribal leader of the yetis.
Wormwood, the Abomination of Desolation, is an angel to be called upon if the world becomes tainted beyond repair. God then created a trumpet that would summon this angel who would destroy earth.
Satan, the Darkstar, the Lord of Shadows, comes to life from death.
Nephilim are the children of angels and humans whose powers emerge when they turn 18. Wings that allow them to fly and the ability to understand all languages are among their powers. The angels seem them as vermin to be stamped out. Archons are angelic sorcerers.
The Cover and Title
The cover is a black-and-white photograph of a bare-chested young Aaron in jeans with his wings flaring out behind him. The name of the series and author's name are in a bright blue with the title barely seen in a very thin white font with a huge white "3" sandwiching (hiding?) the title between it and the series name. Might need a magnifying glass to find that title.
The title is the end, the End of Days that arrive at the end, to end the world.
My Take
I don't think Sniegoski likes angels. I dunno, but it's finally hitting me over the end what with how nasty the angels are in both of Sniegoski's series: Remy Chandler and this one, The Fallen. I think I read the prologue three times because I couldn't believe what Michaels did.
It's an interesting interpretation of Hell, that it's the horror Lucifer caused when he turned brother angel against brother angel. A horror that lives inside him. Sniegoski also interprets the coming of God and his light and its effect on what had existed in our universe before he created our world. Scary…!
There are scenes which are a little too vague for me, and I know that Sniegoski intends them this way, to drum up my curiosity. Only, they're too confusing to do what I think Sniegoski meant. His scary scenes are good, terrors that prey on our fear of the monsters in the dark. That child-god on the island. Fred sliding in his regrets about the old days. Jeremy's mother with her disturbing thoughts, as I wonder whose side is she on?
What I don't understand is how God doesn't see how his Powers have gone awry. How they've misinterpreted their mission so badly. Sure, I realize there's a lot for God to be paying attention to, lots to keep him busy. And it's been millennia. How does he miss all this? Nor do I understand how that island in the Aegean manages to slide under the Antarctic…
How can the angels have fallen so low? The excuses they use for tracking down the Nephilim are so lame, exactly the ones criminals use as an excuse for doing what they want.
No, I hate that trope. The one in which one of the characters has something important to tell, but no one has time to listen. I'm hoping that if someone has something to tell me, that I'll stop and listen right then and there.
Hmmm, doesn't seem that Verchiel has learned much of a lesson nor that he's all that full of repentance. We do learn where the spark began that turned the Powers from their true mission. The scariest part of all, to my mind.
The Story
Lorelei is willing to give her life for the chance to speak to God as the powerful Archons did. To ask for help, for the Powers still hunt them, for they are losing their companions as they battle to save humanity.
The Characters
Aaron Corbet still dreams of his foster family: little Stevie and Lori and Tom Stanley. The only family he remembers or loved. He has learned that he's Lucifer's son, which makes him the leader of the Nephilim, the Chosen One. Gabriel is the yellow Lab he brought back from the dead who now talks to Aaron.
Vilma Santiago is another Nephilim, and she and Aaron are in love. Her only family is her uncle, Aunt Edna, and cousin Nicole.
Saint Athanasius School and Orphanage is…
…where the Nephilim are now living. They see their mission as one of saving other Nephilim and humans caught in terrible situations. Lucifer Morningstar has repented. Milton is his tiny pet mouse. Lorelei shares her visions psychically with other Nephilim and studies Archon magick — and it's killing her. Janice, Kirk, Melissa, Samantha, Russell, and Cameron are most of the Nephilim. Even in an angelic gathering, there has to be one outsider, and that one is Jeremy Fox. William Dean is the antithesis of Jeremy. Handsome, outgoing, cocky. Kraus is now the healer for the Nephilim; he had been the blind healer for the Powers.
The Library at the orphanage had once belonged to Scholar, a former angel of the angelic host Principality and the keeper of knowledge.
Tobias Foster is a blind beggarman with a powerful horn given to him by the Archangel Gabriel. Corpse Riders, a.k.a., Riders, are demonic beasts who slip into our world and into our dead, and they are after that horn. Dustin "Dusty" Handy has always wanted to play the harmonica. Spenser was the dog he had loved. Jack is a trucker who gives Dusty a lift. Fred Leclaire picks up a hitchhiker.
Kemerovo Oblast, Russia is…
…a coal mine where the miners, Anatoli Olegushka, Pavel, Nikolai, Olik, Vadim, and others are trapped in a cave-in.
An island in the Aegean Sea was…
…there before Atlantis sank, and its inhabitants worshipped N'Ken-Thaa, the child-god and his family of monsters.
The backup Powers are…
…angels assigned to protect the earth, to keep God's favored world free of evil, of anything that might offend him. Only the Powers have gone off track. Leonard Michaels is the undercover identity for Geburah, the leader of the backup team Verchiel, the vanquished Powers leader, set in place along with Suria, Anfial is the tracker, Shebniel has a sadistic streak (and that's sayin' somethin'), Tandal, and Huzia.
Siberian tundra
N'Karr is the tribal leader of the yetis.
Wormwood, the Abomination of Desolation, is an angel to be called upon if the world becomes tainted beyond repair. God then created a trumpet that would summon this angel who would destroy earth.
Satan, the Darkstar, the Lord of Shadows, comes to life from death.
Nephilim are the children of angels and humans whose powers emerge when they turn 18. Wings that allow them to fly and the ability to understand all languages are among their powers. The angels seem them as vermin to be stamped out. Archons are angelic sorcerers.
The Cover and Title
The cover is a black-and-white photograph of a bare-chested young Aaron in jeans with his wings flaring out behind him. The name of the series and author's name are in a bright blue with the title barely seen in a very thin white font with a huge white "3" sandwiching (hiding?) the title between it and the series name. Might need a magnifying glass to find that title.
The title is the end, the End of Days that arrive at the end, to end the world.
This one was full of action that I was not expecting. It was crazy intense not only what's going on within the Nephilim group but the Powers and the monsters of the world. But I did not like that ending! Not okay, Sniegoski!!