Let's start with this book is under Christian Fantasy and is a novel. The story that Jean has created expands on Genesis, and some things taken from the "Book of Jubilee" and the "Book of Enoch" which are known as "The Apocrypha and Pseudeprgrapha of the Old Testament. They are basically an expansion of the Book of Genesis and are not consider part of the Bible. Whether the facts in these books are fact or fiction is not up for me to decide.
However Jean brings Adam's lineage to life instead of just names in a genealogy tree. This story brings the story of Baraqua and Jared to life. How we are deceived and confused about what and who we are. How misguided are own dreams can be when God has a different plan for us. Jean brings the angels or "Watchers" to life as heaven fights the fallen ones against the line of the "Anointed One". She also gives us peek of what possibly life was like before "The Flood" and why God would want to destroy man.
The story starts out slowly as it introduces our characters to us and where they fit in the Sethite line. I must admit, I had to stop and actually read the Book of Jubilee and Enoch to actually understand some of the verses that she uses from these books. It builds as the angels fall to earth and the sin and destruction they blaze the earth into. The climax of the story made me hold my breath as the Sethites take on the fallen ones and their children. Although this story is fiction, the strength of the writing is excellent and seriously made me think about what that time was actually like back then.
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