| Title | : | Adversary (They Who Fell #3) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 444 |
| Publication | : | First published April 23, 2017 |
Adversary (They Who Fell #3) Reviews
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A fitting end to a great series. Possibly just a dash too much reflection on emotions for the main protagonist and a couple of the supplementary characters, but the action scenes more than made up for the deep introspective scenes.
I feel that my knowledge of angels and cherubs and the rest of the heavenly hosts has been well broadened! And I have a new desire to remain far away from the clutches of Lucifer and Hell!
The author has done some excellent world building with this series, and has written some truly awesome action/fight scenes. I adored the whole series and I'm pleased I read them all. -
I have to say, after really enjoying the first two books in this series, I found this disappointing. Not because the story wasn't fresh and interesting, but because the book was Way Too Long and spent way too much time being melodramatic. I wish the author would have stuck to telling the compelling story of Rhamiel, Jana, and the clash between the forces of good and evil and stopped with all the romance novel elements. Seriously, this book should have been 100 pages shorter. I found myself rolling my eyes many times at the soap opera nature of the relationships and everyone's feelings. Oh my God, all the feelings. Just stop already, there was so much redundancy in this novel regarding feelings that I wanted to scream and found my mind wandering while I was reading. It was a struggle at times to get through this because of it. I don't remember the first two books being like this at all, so I don't know what came over the author, but please stop trying to combine a romance novel with fantasy.
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3.5, rounding up to be nice.
Man, this book got WAAAAAAY too jesus-y. I mean, yeah, the warning signs had been growing. but this book goes FULL ON the jesus train, and as a non-christian, that got preeeeetty grating.
Also, weirdly, this book was surprisingly less sexist (three+ major female characters!) and WAY MORE sexist (lots of lines about how men are warriors/brave/stoic, have even angels have majority male warriors.... uhh that never came up in last two books?) (uhhhh WHY would angels have human gender roles and norms again?) (also the lady charas, while nice, spend a LOT of time thinking about beauty, babies, love, housework, etc. even the leader/warriors)
I skipped ahead and read last page after a bit, and I got excited for a twist that never came. This book would have been 100% better if there was a big twist partway through that Jana's baby WASN'T The Jesus. It was just a weird angel baby. And they needed to find salvation and forgiveness etc... not because of some saviour, just cause it's the right thing to do.
I also got very excited because I thought she'd have a miscarriage and lose the baby. That'd be a big twist! Probably too sensitive for kevin 'the worst writer of women' kneupper to handle. But I would have loved something that devalued the obvious, literaly 'dues ex machina'. Yeah, yeah. Jesus. He's coming, he'll save everyone, rad.
The stakes would have been crazy if we'd lost that thread. if jesus wasn't actually coming, or was in fact lost. if they had to move forward on their own merits, not the promise of a god who, by all accounts, kinda sucks ass for letting this all happen.
(Really, the angel apocalypse is sick to read about, but horrible. and NOW, you send jesus back? C'mon @god. It's been a hard couple of decades at this point) (I also spent a lot of time wondering what the hell was going on in Real Heaven, anyways. What were THEY up to?)
The action is still weirdly well done, it's easy to follow, dynamic, and often has good twists and turns. The pain is that there isn't much stake, since we know we're to get a happy ending. I wanted the obvious formula twisted a little, but in the end most fights are observed. It takes the 50% mark for the plot to pick up, but the next 50% is more boring than the beginning. Lucifer is defeated too easily, and again, via a literal dues ex machina. Jana is very, very stupid and rash for someone ~8 months pregnant, and honestly with the stress she's been in, probably that baby should've been toast.
it was nice getting to the end of this series, it is a guilty pleasure fun sort of thing, but again. Terribly sexist, even if Kev's been trying really hard this book. Increasingly jesus-y, and then this book gets way overboard. And, as mentioned in other reviews, this one spends much more time on characters delicate emotions and such. rhamiel/jana was fun in book one, but they've just become a weird, too in love power couple, and really mopey.
Rhamiel also gets a dramatic reveal/arc thing, and I feel it's then too easily justified. I'd much rather we accept moral greyness than go 'well, it was better they be slaves than die!'. Uh. Rhamiel? You're still an asshole. accept the deep realms of complicated morality.
Also again. The stakes never worked because kevin kneupper didn't have the balls to kill off jesus. -
What was an intriguing concept that built a little in the second book of the series ends with too much soap opera and not enough care. Seems that over and over a love story was bashed over the readers head and with each strike, not even a clanging gong results. Just silence and maybe a "meh".
What truly makes me angry and wholly disappointed is having to wait almost three years for this conclusion. The longest book of the three and this is what it became: Days of Our Lives, without Marlena nor Stefano.
Read only if you need to finish the trilogy ... otherwise, don't do it. -
Great series
I enjoyed all three books in the series. Ended the only way it could. Looks like the ending left the author an opening for a new series. -
Addiction
Engrossing revelations! Excellent tale of times to come. I have enjoyed this fantasy of the second coming of the son of God! Truly a riveting story! -
Rating: 9/10
Pages: 442
This third of the trilogy does not disappoint. As Jana, Rhamiel, Thane, and their ragtag group of humanity pour through the land, desperate for Jana to have the baby in a safe space, you can't stop turning the pages. The main line of the story is as old as time. They are creating a new legend of hope and kindness.
The evil angels, are as in the other two, such good foils. But it was enjoyable to see some of the characters waver. And as before, it is their own need for their own self serving that causes turmoil amongst themselves.
Really a great way to end the series
Kindle -
Just finished this trilogy. It had a great premise and although I fully read through the series till the end - it just was not my cup of tea. I felt that there was so much scope for much more action and adventure with its wealth of great characters like Thane, Cassie and Rhamiel but it didn't quite deliver on the climactic ending I was hoping for.
I see a lot of promise in this author but I would love to see the world building and action suspense facets grow up some. -
Mix of emotions and action
It's been a long time since a series gripped me to the point is reading them in such which succession.
The action towards the end of this book kept me tense and eager to turn the page. Some great characterisation too.
A fitting end, yet equally left in such a way that there could be more, if the author wanted to. -
A great read, literally could not put the kindle down. I've been with the serious from the beginning and was truly disheartened to find that there would not be a book four released. The writer captivated me with the strong characters and the decisions they were forced to make throughout the series. An exceptional story and a must read for all!
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The first book was interesting. Second definitely slowed down a bit and then the third? What was that? Horrible ending. Got weirdly super religious, not in an interesting fiction way. Disappointed. Finally saw how much of a new author Kevin Kneupper was. Probably won't read and wouldn't recommend any of his future books. Kevin Kneupper does not deliver.
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Amazing best series I've read
What an emotional rollercoaster of a series. Vividly written, well developed characters,exciting plot loved every word written so well it was like watching a movie in my head while reading -
Great read.
Really great story. Loved the characters.
Fantastic Story. Could not put it down. -
This is the best book of the three so far, I couldn't put the book down and read it all within a 2 hour train journey, I couldn't put it down.
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Really had high hopes for the series, but the plot was predictable and the ending was completely unimaginative.
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Love, love , love this series
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Love this story!
I absolutely love this series! I have enjoyed reading all of the books and am always a little sad when I finish them but then find myself re-reading all of them. -
Enjoyed the read
An enjoyable end to a very good trilogy. Good storytelling that had me binge reading late into the night more than once! -
It was so hard for me to get thru this whole series . There is seriously nothing else I can say .
