But that was seven years ago, before something horrible happened, something that they can't remember, that tore them apart, that sent them drifting into drugs, crime and despair something that is now stalking their nightmares, drawing them back together to become embroiled in an ancient battle between the angels of light and darkness. Five pre-teens were best friends once, sharing a mystical bond transcending race and class. Alas, the mystery of the opening was better than the revealing of the rest.-Sebastien Wen, Teen Review 'An apocolyptic series with an evangelical subtext kicks off with this high octane thrill ride. ![]() ![]() Readers who enjoy complicated plots and casts of characters will look forward to the next book in this series.-Betsy Fraser, VOYA August 2010 This book offers well-polished and likable characters surrounded by a masterful and disturbing atmosphere of paranoid- schizophrenic chill. The large cast will provide sympathetic characters that readers will like these include the nineteen-year-old single mother Jenna, whose appealing five-year-old son, Mikey, is the next generation of Watcher, and a former gang member trying to redeem himself. This apocalyptic novel is written in short chapters, giving readers the points of view of all five characters as they struggle to understand what is going on now, and to remember what happened to them seven years ago. The five must fight together in order to save each other, as they realize that they have won the battle, but not the war. He didn't know that the beings had come back for all of them, or that the five of them are Watchers, capable of seeing both the MazziKim (fallen angels) and the Irinim (God's warring angels). But when he finds himself painting pictures of the four best friends he hasn't seen in seven years, he remembers the beings that chased him, along with Jonah, Carly, TJ and Jenna. It makes as much sense as the nightmares, or the words that appear in his journal. ![]() Sam Becker doesn't know what to think when he starts hearing Jonah's voice.
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