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Assassins (Left Behind, Book 6) Review

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This is a wonderful series that I just can’t seem to put down. I’ve read through six books in the series in just over a month. Yes these are fictional books, but they are based on biblical prophesy and it has, in an uncanny way, helped me to begin to understand the end times and why such a loving God would allow such turmoil and destruction. Even those who do not believe should read this series. It is action packed and will take you through all the emotions and bring you close to the characters. I will continue to read the series, as I am excited to read about The Glorious Appearing.

Assassins (Left Behind, Book 6) Overview

After selling nearly two million copies since its release in August 1999, Assassins in now availabe in trade paper! The seven-year Tribulation reaches its halfway mark in the sixth book of the blockbuster Left Behind series, Assassins. Nicolae Carpathia is assassinated, setting the stage for the Great Tribulation.

Assassins (Left Behind, Book 6) Specifications

Is it right to kill Satan’s hit man? Would it help God’s work? This installment in the Left Behind series picks up with Rayford Steele–”believer” and international fugitive–as he struggles with a plan to assassinate Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. Meanwhile, Carpathia has been busy rebuilding roads, airports, and a cellular/solar satellite phone system–all designed to help him become supreme ruler of the world–and even claim himself to be God. We also find ace reporter Buck Williams anonymously preaching to the masses of believers and converts through his cyberspace magazine The Truth. All the believers in the safe house, including Buck, Doc, Chloe, and Tsion, are suspicious of Hattie–former mistress of Carpathia–who claims to be a believer but may have already compromised their secret location when she tried to buy her way to Europe months before.

Fans of the series won’t be disappointed. Jenkins’s signature writing is at full force. Readers can count on a suspenseful plot, imaginative futuristic thinking, and familiar characters, all of which appear in the opening pages and are sustained until the last cliffhanger scene when God unleashes another earth-shattering disaster.

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Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) Review

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Definitely a stand-out among all the elves-and-dwarves fantasy series out there – maybe because there are no elves or dwarves. Magic and fantasy are really only a tiny portion of the story, come to think of it. The real meat of the story is in the character interactions and power struggles that guide the plot. It’s got very strong characters – good, evil, and undefinable – trickery, magic, intrigue, and poignancy, which really makes it my kind of book. I will say, though, like every other reviewer out there, that it takes about a hundred pages to get into it. Wait it out, it’s worth it.

Because the system of magic that Hobb created is so simple – this is not Tolkien, by any means – the characters really drive the novel. Thankfully, she writes very believable characters and relationships. When the main character is stupid or stubborn or proud, it’s not forced for the sake of a plot device (well, ok, sometimes), but rather serves to make him that much more human. It’s refreshing, honestly, and reminds me slightly of Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind, although I put that in a different league altogether. That the characters are so believable serves to make bits of the book that much more poignant. It’s very easy to empathize and not sympathize, and since Hobb is not afraid to deal her characters some tough hands, there are chapters that really tug at the heartstrings.

Definitely worth a read. I’ll be reading the second installment for sure.

Good lines: “‘Now. You can call me Chade. And I shall call you?’ He paused and waited, but when I did not offer a name, he filled in, ‘Boy. That’s not names for either of us, but they’ll do, for the times we have together.’”

“‘I’ll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people.’”

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.”

Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) Feature

• ISBN13: 9780553573398
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) Overview

Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father’s gruff stableman. He is treated like an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him sectetly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz’s blood runs the magic Skill–and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family. As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.

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