The Bloodshed Of The Betrayed (The Mercy Chronicles) by A. L. Slade
The Bloodshed Of The Betrayed (The Mercy Chronicles)
by A. L. Slade
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My Thoughts 4.4/5
Synopsis
Unable to feel emotions, angels are God’s devoted soldiers, who are tasked with carrying out God’s will. One of which is to answer the question: can angels handle the gift of emotions without it interfering with their loyalty to God?
Enter Laramie.
Angel Laramie is given emotions as a trial to decide once and for all if angels are ready to feel again. However, she soon becomes sidetracked by an infatuation with a human called Maggie, prompting her to neglect her orders and allow her mission to fail. She returns to her superiors in hopes of helping the human only to learn her feelings were a test. Her failure means her banishment to Earth until she fades away forever.
Magda Mercy is a twenty-three-year-old college student with dreams of becoming a doctor. Her life changes forever when her brother returns on leave from the military with devastating family news.
In exile, Laramie is confronted by Lucifer with a confounding revelation that changes everything Laramie has ever known as an angel. Lucifer presents an offer of eventual immortality in exchange for Laramie’s ceaseless fidelity. When Laramie declines, Lucifer lashes out by tormenting the innocent Maggie as punishment for Laramie’s refusal. Laramie must now do everything in her power to save Maggie and prevent Lucifer from realizing his goals, even if it means reaching oblivion sooner.
My Thoughts
The question at the heart of science fiction and fantasy is "what if?" What if gods and angel's were real, but you could kill them? What if humans finally made it out among the stars — only to discover we're the shabby newcomers in a grand galactic alliance? What if an asteroid destroyed the East Coast in 1952 and jump-started the space race years early?
The Bloodshed Of The Betrayed (The Mercy Chronicles) by A. L. Slade is an assured, gripping, and stylish fantasy read totally mind-blowing angelic fantasy you've been needing...This is a novel that will thrill you like the page-turner it is, but stick with you for a long time afterward. It's not every day a debut novel by an author you'd never heard of before derails your entire afternoon with its brilliance. But when my review copy of The Bloodshed Of The Betrayed (The Mercy Chronicles) arrived, that's exactly what it did. In fact, it arrowed upward to reach a pretty high position on my list of best fantasy novels ever.
An amazingly-threaded narrative proves seductive, drawing the reader into the naive but determined protagonist's efforts to transform an unjust universe. A. L. Slade uses...an expansionist galaxy-spinning world building [and] a protagonist on a single-minded quest for justice to transcend angelic conventions in innovative ways. This impressive debut succeeds in making Angel Laramie and other characters that readers will invest in, and establishes The Bloodshed Of The Betrayed as a gem to read.
Overall , A sharply written fantasy with a richly imagined sense of detail and place, this debut novel from A. L. Slade works as both an evocative science fiction tale and an involving character study...it's also a strongly character-driven piece, tackling ideas about angel's and gods in a way that's both engaging and provocative...The Bloodshed Of The Betrayed is a gripping read that's well worth a look.
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