While there is a hero … the hero’s journey is nearly unrecognizable and flat. There is little to no nuance in this extremely derivative story (so many tropes so little time) … pretty much everything is obvious or otherwise predictable. This book fits neatly into that apocalyptic style … with the added detraction of what I appears to be a freshman debut of the writer’s craft. Sadly, it is very hard to find quality “Christian” fantasy stories … with many, like this one, focused on imagining dystopian world of the “Tribulation” coming with the Eschaton (End of the World), they all seem to eschew any true world building and character development in favor of streams of descriptions (info dumps) that overly emphasizes Mary Sue/Gary Stu nature of the hero with the requisite deus ex machine plot points and unredeemable evil of the “ultimate” antagonist … complete with a appalling voyeuristic telling of how said evil manifests in the world (presumably for shock value … though frequently it’s gratuitous).
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