“From
thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the
wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the
border of Moab , between Moab
Numbers
21:13-15 (KJV)
The Book has been found . . .
and the mysteries surrounding said book have military leaderships around the
globe scrambling to obtain the
book of the wars of the LORD. Navy Seal
Leif
Metcalfe has been given command of his own team, and the opportunity to redeem
himself from his previous failure, despite a 6 – month period of time of which
he has no recollection.
Bulgarian
operative Iskra “Virorica” Todorova is also seeking the book, for her own
personal desire . . . freedom. However,
a series of strange global storms, coupled with dire predictions of future
events, have forced Leif and Iskra into an uneasy alliance in order to thwart
impending disaster.
In
the end, will Leif and Iskra find the freedom they are so desperately
seeking?
I normally devour Ronie
Kendig’s writing. However, I just
couldn’t get into this particular book, for several reasons.
The book is large . . . not
just in terms of pages. It’s large in
that it covers large areas of planet earth, much of which I’m not familiar
with. It contains many sub-plots, and
those sub-plots develop over a large amount of time. And this is just the first book in the
series, which means the requisite “cliff-hanger” ending for this particular
novel.
My biggest issue, however,
stems from a personal bias – a prejudice, if you will. I’ve never been a big fan of books that
resurrect some obscure passage of scripture, and then unleash poetic license in
megaton proportions. My wife is an
author, so I understand the imagination aspect of the craft. But for me, the practice of eisegesis
(reading something into the scriptures that may or may not actually be there)
is not good. God says what he means, and
means what he says . . . human conjecture is not really necessary.
Ronie Kendig exhibits her
usual nail – biting, gut – wrenching tension in her action scenes, putting the
reader “into” the action as no one else can, and she develops the characters
and their relationships so real that you feel you could recognize them on the
street. If you are looking to “escape”
from reality, you could find no finer writer.
I received this book free of
charge in exchange for my open and honest review.
STORM RISING
Ronie Kendig
ISBN: 978-0-7642-3187-2
Suspense
Bethany House
381 pages
$15.99 U.S.
