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Picture this: A young woman, Abigail, was given a job to track an older man, George. George finds out and gets scared, then hires a young man, Haatim to track Abigail and get evidence to incriminate her. He gets reasonably good photos but hesitates to hand them over. George gets angry and hires 2 other men to track and kill him. Abigail's new order is to kill George. Abigail kills George. Haatim witnesses it, sort of. As he runs from the scene, he bumps into the men George sent to kill him. One of them was dead, one eye socket gorged out and a deep gash in his neck, smelling quite rotten with a good number of loyal flies buzzing all around him. A sight horrific enough to send Haatim vomiting and passing out after running the fastest race he'd ever run all his life to get away from the dead but living assailant.
Haatim recovers consciousness to find himself back in his apartment, with Abigail cooking breakfast in his kitchen. It turns out that the demon who possessed George's body had marked Haatim as his next vessel and was coming for him. So now the woman Haatim was hired to incriminate and report to local police has become his saviour, saving him from demons who can possess not just the living but also dead bodies with eyes gorging out and a deep gash in their neck with dozens of loyal flies proudly buzzing along.
Then while on the rescue mission to save Haatim, he became part of another rescue mission which was a driving force for Abigail - to go to the deep recesses of hell to rescue her dad who was imprisoned by demons while he tried to rescue her from the demons....
Now are you confused and turned off, or intrigued and wanting to know exactly the whole story? Your answer will let you know whether this book is really for you or not. Even if you don't believe in the supernatural but you love twists and turns in a good plot with lots of mystery and adventure surrounding it, you'd enjoy this book. And perhaps start asking yourself whether the supernatural isn't really real. If you're already familiar with the supernatural, you may not agree with everything in the book (it's fiction, ok?), but it will surely fascinate you. But if you're the queasy type and you tend to see shadows in your room turning into monsters at night, please avoid reading this book!
Raven's Peak, Book 1 of the Series: World on Fire, written by Lincoln Cole is a work of fiction that got my mind reeling with imaginations and possibilities. I confess that when I started reading it, I almost dropped it. A Reverend in a prison cell flogging himself so badly his body was marred and bled, demons running around in dead bodies? What? Didn't want anything disturbing my peace of mind. But the mystery-loving part of me won and I kept reading. Now I'm looking forward to finding and reading the rest of the series. The longer a book is, the happier I am so I absolutely love series. Because it means there's more fascinating stuff happening. As long as the writer doesn't start dragging it and making it boring. But I never had a bored moment with this book.
I easily identified with two of the main characters, Abigail and Haatim. Though the man she sought for wasn't her real dad, he was as real a dad to Abigail as she ever had, taught her all she knew and loved her to the point of giving up himself to save her. The organization she worked for tried to deter her from her quest but she kept pushing. I don't believe one should let anything or anyone else stop them from finding answers to the questions that surround one's life, or from pursuing a driving passion. Except if it's dangerous. Yes Abigail was going into very dangerous zone (don't we all get there sometimes, one way or the other), but what she needed was love, understanding and proper guidance to help her. Haatim also needed answers to questions that nagged at him. The death of his sister had turned his life upside down and he was hanging on by a thread, when suddenly his world really did turn upside down, or should I say right side up? Identifying with these characters kept me going to also discover the answers they sought for myself as well.
The book was very well written, I didn't see any errors. In the midst of descriptions of horrific characters was a lot of humour that made it seem not that terrible, and the story-telling was excellent, so I rate it 4 out of 4 stars. I'm sure looking out for more of Lincoln Cole's books to read.
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Raven's Peak
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