Book Review by Terry James

Israel is back in its God-promised land after almost 2 millennia of diaspora just as foretold. That nation is under incessant verbal assault by its hate-filled neighbors, the mainstream news media, and the international community. As has been Israel’s plight throughout history, it is the focal point of satanic rage. Its ancient enemies are aligned precisely as predicted, preparing to make their final attack. These facts constitute proof for many that Bible prophecy is in the process of fulfillment

Author Bill Salus has, in my opinion, fashioned a unique and riviting literary look at Bible truth concerning God’s chosen people and these last days. He cobbles together fiction with nonfiction in such a way as to make what we see in our daily headlines truly seem to come alive. One senses he or she is living the experiences of the story’s protagonists, and the range of emotions engendered keeps the reader anxiously turning pages.

Iran’s nuclear threat, the Arab Spring, the toppling of long-ruling despots, and the power vacuum left in the wake–the realism presented vacuums the reader’s attention ever-deeper into the story. Israel’s security under attack from hostile powers abroad and wavering support by the U.S.–the nation that helped midwife the Jewish state’s birth into modernity–all are powerfully presented within this transfixing adventure through history we are in the process of living day by day.

I couldn’t better synopsize this novelistic look at things that are about to take place in reality than they way it’s given in the following description from a promotion piece for Revelation Road:

Modern dangers? Yes, but calamities foretold in the Bible thousands of years ago. Revelation Road explains the events occurring on our darkening horizon and their Biblical significance. America’s economic house-of-cards and political instability, the Rapture of the Church and the void created by its disappearance and the subsequent rise of a world religion. Experience the End Times through the eyes of the Thompson family.

George Thompson believes his grandson Tyler lives in the final generation. Lovingly, he prepares the lad for the treacherous road ahead. All young Tyler wanted was a chance to join his sister at Eastside Middle School in the fall, but Middle East war and nuclear terror in America turned Tyler’s world upside down.
Join them on their journey and discover how their gripping story uncovers the silver lining of hope against the backdrop of global gloom and doom.
Bill Salus has crafted a unique novel with a non-fiction commentary, that serves as an eye-opening herald call to all believers and non-believers alike!
Read Revelation Road and ask yourself, ‘What would you and your family do?’”

This is a book I can recommend with great enthusiasm.

Book Review by Terry James

The Creator of all things has said that whatever man has imagined , that he can do (Gen 11:6). Although the context of that declaration is one in which the Creator had to stop man from building the tower that was meant to usurp the Throne of god, the God-Given creative minds of mankind have informed, instructed, and in the case of K.M. Paradice’s novel,  The Chronicles of the Sons of None, entertained us for millennia. Reading this author’s work illustrates in dynamic fashion that imagination was meant to be used for good rather than for evil.

The Chronicles of the Sons of None is, in my estimation, a high fantasy novel worthy in the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia.

Occasionally, rarely, and perhaps only once in a blue moon, some lone soul somewhere on the earth experiences a life-changing epiphany that alters the course of the entire human race. Such is the occasion when Connor Bridges, a recent photography school graduate, has his first encounter with the immortal Joshua.

This is the story of seven adopted siblings, taught by their parents to walk in the ways of God, who find Their strikingly ordinary lives are abruptly and irrevocably altered when they discover their father’s well-kept secret that as a young man he had been contacted by an immortal, Joshua, who prophesied their adoption into the Bridges family before they were born. Their lives are predestined from the foundations of the earth, at least one of them called to be the Keeper of the key, that key which unlocks the best-kept secret since the earth’s creation. And exactly what secret does the elusive key unlock?

Follow Connor’s adventures from the pier at Tybee Island, Georgia, to an ancient Roman villa in Jerusalem, to the warm winter sunshine of South Florida, and to the legendary island nation of Atlantis as he and the key are relentlessly pursued for the interests of both good and evil.  Will Connor fulfill his destiny?

I find the following promotional text about this terrific fantasy work to be accurately descriptive.

“Discover a saga of human and immortal lives intricately intertwined as together they battle Romulus, a never-aging human, once righteous but now a declared enemy of all that is holy, who seeks to dethrone the Almighty Himself. In this heart-pounding odyssey where ageless beings, guardians of the throne of God, take on the form of the sons of Adam, the line separating dreams from reality often blurs as this action-packed tale moves seamlessly between the spirit world and terra firma… You will be thrilled with the description of heaven’s courts where loved ones lost from the shores of earth are eagerly about their Father’s business in eternity. “

K.M. Paradice has indeed produced a  story that evokes in the reader’s imagination, the  highest, most noble qualities of the Creator’s majestic Character as He deals with His Creation.

Kudos to the craftsman of this modern day venture into the realm that melds earthy reality with  the supernatural.

The reader is in for a treat when reading what well might become a tale of classic proportion.