Thursday, March 13, 2014

Order of Darkness: Stormbringers by Philippa Gergory - OPTIONAL

Gregory, Philippa  Order of Darkness: Stormbringers, 327 pgs.  Simon Pulse, 2013.  $17.99  Content: Language: PG (2 swears); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG.  

In this second book in the Order of Darkness series, Luca is still looking for signs of the end of days, so when he comes upon a child crusade led by a self-proclaimed prophet, Johann, he stops to investigate.  Johann is leading the children to Jerusalem and promises that they will be rewarded for their journey by God, but when he leads the children into the ocean after it seemingly parts for him, bad things happen that Luca can’t explain.  

The characters in this book are great, Luca and Isolde as well as their servants Ishraq and Freize, they make you care for them and their hearts desires.  The overall idea of investigating the End of Days is interesting, but sometimes the debates in theology go on and on slowing the whole story line down.  I also had a hard time with this book because it’s obvious that the big unexplained even is a tsunami, but Luca keeps trying to find a religious explanation for it, so it was frustrating as the reader.  Overall, it’s not a bad series, it is just slow at times.  

MS, HS-OPTIONAL.  Reviewer, C. Peterson.

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