Featured books

Featured Websites

.: Reader Views Kids

Provides book reviews, by kids, for kids

.: Inside Scoop Live

Provides live author interviews for podcast

.: Authors Access

Provides interviews with experts in the publishing industry

.: Midwest Book Review

Provides post-publication reviews

.: Reader Views

Provides book reviews and author publicity

.: LR Communication Design

Provides professional website design and development

.: Blogging Authors

Provides a place where writers and readers meet

.: Review The Book

Provides 5 books reviews on 10 different sites

.: Best Sellers World

Provides book reviews and author features

.: Feathered Quill Book Reviews

Provides book reviews and author features

reviews

The Lost Angel: A Novel

Javier Sierra
Atria Books (2011)
ISBN 9781451632798
Reviewed by Ray Palen for RebeccasReads (12/11)

International best-selling author, Javier Sierra, is a native of Madrid, Spain and his work has been translated into thirty-five languages. The crux of his novels centers on religion and spirituality --- with his latest release, "The Lost Angel," being no exception to this rule.

What if mankind had discovered a way to open up a line of communication directly to God? Sounds farfetched, but that premise is what drives the latest historical/spiritual thriller by Javier Sierra. Dr. John Dee lived under the reign of England’s Queen Elizabeth in the 1500’s and was lauded for his scientific knowledge as well as his mastery over the occult arts. Among his many controversial writings, Dee claimed to have opened up a pathway into the world of angels. The question that surrounds all of this is: “What in the world could any human say that would be even mildly interesting to God?”

Dr. Dee possessed stones, known as adamants that were allegedly a gift of the angels. These stones that were forged in heaven may still exist today and that fact will drive certain parties to extreme limits to possess them --- the U.S. Government being no exception. Julia Alvarez, a Spanish historian, is searching for her missing husband, Martin Faber. Faber is a climatologist and former NSA operative and he may be in possession of these aforementioned adamants. These stones have biblical significance as they were supposed to have been originally stolen from Eden and God himself attempted to destroy them --- along with most of mankind --- with the Great Flood.

With stories existing world-wide about the search for Noah’s Ark, Alvarez and Faber both realize that their missions will lead them to an area around Mt. Ararat that alleges to house the remains of Noah’s Ark. This in and of itself would be a discovery of global proportions, but the rival teams seeking this artifact are more interested by what might still remain inside Noah’s Ark!

Julia learns that the Bible foretold of a third Fall from Grace, found within the writings of the Book of Enoch. Julia and her group find Faber and his alleged captors and join together in their search. They are matched by the intensity of the U.S. Government and a secret agency answering only to the President who seeks to claim the adamants before they bring about this biblically forecast disaster that could mark the end of life on earth as we know it.

The U.S. mission --- known as Operation Elijah --- are in a race against the clock as predictions of the adamants calling forth global extinction appear to be a frightening reality. Who will find and possess the adamants? What will happen once they are found? Is this effort all in vain and is mankind simply doomed to live out biblical prophecy? The pages keep turning in this quick-moving thriller that never lets up. Javier Sierra is well-researched (as evidenced by the lengthy glossary of terms at the end of the novel) and knows how to keep the intensity level at high right up until the last page is turned.

.: Blog
.: FTC Disclosure