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Title: Angelwalk: On Holy Ground by Roger Elwood ISBN: 0768421144 Publisher: Destiny Image Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Rating: 3
Summary: so-so ~ not my favorite
Comment: I bought this book expecting the same writing style as the preceding books in this series, but I was very wrong. In my opinion, this book read like a series of interviews with brief parts when we get to see "behind the scenes" with Darien and Stedfast. I wish it would have been more "fictionalized" like the others in the series were. Other than that, I enjoyed the book and found myself almost in tears at some parts. I hope Mr. Elwood writes another in this series!
Rating: 4
Summary: An Interesting Meld of Fact and Fiction
Comment: I had heard this Angelwalk novel was a bit different. That's an understatement.
One thing about Roger Elwood -- when he's on, he's on. His best books are full of brilliance, bordering on genius. The others -- well, even books that aren't his best have moments of brilliance and power.
Where does this fall? Definitely in the upper end of the spectrum. I can't say this is the best Angelwalk novel, simply because the others are so good.
"On Holy Ground" recounts events of September 15, 1999, when a man entered a church and opened fire, killing and wounding a number of people. It is told from the POV of two angels from Elwood's Angelwalk series, Darien and Stedfast.
I have to admit I was a little worried when I picked the book up. The book uses a mix of documentary-like fact (pulling quotes straight from interviews) and the setting of the angels, which, however real it may be, must be left up to the imagination of the author because we just don't have the insight to see the actual events in the spiritual realm. At first I thought the mixing of fact and fiction would not work. But it does. Elwood uses the documentary tone to give us a portrait of the victims of this tragedy, a portrait of their life and legacy, and uses the angels as commentary and to recount the Biblical and spiritual truths presented. Their observations do not preach, although they come close to it. (The preaching comes at the end of the book with a well thought essay from a theologian about the nature of God and evil.) I was worried that the fictional angels would cheapen the true story. They do not. They serve to illustrate the spiritual underpinnings of an event like this in our culture.
My only real problem with the book was its length. It was too short. And at some points, Steadfast says some things that it seems to me should come from Darien's mouth . . . but that's just because I've read the originals recently, and is a minor "nit-pick".
I won't say "On Holy Ground" is entertaining, not in the way that Independence Day or Superman are entertaining. It is more like watching Schindlar's List. You know from the beginning that the book is heading into tragic territory. But it offers insight and encouragement, especially for Christians, through the iconography of Elwood's fictional angels.
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Title: The Angelwalk Trilogy/Angelwalk/Fallen Angel/Stedfast by Roger Elwood ISBN: 0884861147 Publisher: Budget Book Service Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Darien: Guardian Angel of Jesus by Roger Elwood ISBN: 0849911745 Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Angelwalk by Roger Elwood ISBN: 0891074406 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Where Angels Dare (Angelwalk Series/Roger Elwood) by Roger Elwood ISBN: 0805418776 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Wendy's Phoenix: An Angelwalk Novel by Roger Elwood ISBN: 0373870892 Publisher: Steeple Hill Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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