Product Description

Three Archangels ... Three Brothers ... One turned renegade ... A sweeping epic of origins and mysteries, The Fall of Lucifer tells a tale older than the universe itself. Set in opulent palaces and frightening hell worlds, this is a timeless saga of doubt, of demons and angelic warriors, of obsessive love and treason, and of an ancient evil that knows no bounds.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3085 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From the Inside Flap
Soon the universe itself will be rocked by war, a war between three angelic brothers - a war fought for the greatest prize in the universe - the war for the race of men.

About the Author
Wendy Alec was born in London, England. Coming from a background in the arts and media, she is a prolific writer. She is creative director of a leading global broadcasting network that she co-founded with her husband.

Customer Reviews

Intriguing subject matter - well told story!
I am not usually a fan of books such as this, but the subject matter intrigued me. I have often wondered how Lucifer came into being, how he became the epitome of all things evil, so I thought I'd let Wendy Alec tell me.

I found the first few chapters to be over-descriptive, and some of the images conjured up didn't make sense, but then, maybe I was thinking too literally. This was heaven being described after all... Anyway, the descriptions soon gave way to the story, and it is indeed a cracking story. God Himself doesn't play as large a role as I had expected, but the characters and situations more than made up for it. The 3 angelic Brothers, Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer were God's favoured sons, and accordingly lived a life of abject luxury. God, however, decided to create a race in His own image - Man - using His own genetic code, and bestowed on them the gift of free will. This was a decision which sent shockwaves through the first heaven. Lucifer knew that man would replace the angels, and himself, as God's favourites, and set out to destroy the new race. The book sets out to tell the story of his fall from grace, his corruption of Mankind in the garden of Eden, and the processes which led to God sending himself to earth to save mankind from eternal damnation.

Like I said, it is a belter of a story, and Wendy has told it very well. There is ample character development, more than enough location descriptions, and everything links well with the stories we all learned as kids, but it also gives you some background information about how these stories came about.

I'm not a commited Christian, but I enjoyed this book as a plain, good old-fashioned story. I look forward to the next installment with interest.

Three Archangels, three Brothers, one turned renegade…
This is such a great read!

Wendy Alec has taken an extremely difficult subject for her first novel and made it exciting, illuminating and thought provoking. Her writing style is easy to read and very morish.

I read this novel in a day, which wasn’t my intention, I just found myself reading another chapter, then another and another… One of the things that made this possible is the short chapters allowing the reader to read just one more…

After the huge disappointment of the Left Behind series by Jerry B Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, I have been left somewhat jaded in my view of Christian fiction. I did find that series to be elitist, partisan and somewhat morally dubious. None of these failings can be said of the Fall Of Lucifer. Wendy Alec is a humble person by nature and this comes through in her sensitive and mature writing style.

I did find the first couple of chapters a little repetitious mainly in descriptive passages about the First Heaven; but on reflection, given the subject matter and how truly impossible it is for us to imagine, it is both forgivable and completely understandable. As a writer myself, I don’t see how she could’ve done better. I certainly wouldn’t even attempt a novel like this. It is quite obviously a work of imagination, biblical knowledge and revelation. I’m not sure that anyone else could have pulled it.

As I intimated earlier in this review, I’m not a huge fan of Christian fiction. I read mainly secular novels and got so fed up with the Left Behind series that I honestly thought I wouldn’t read another Christian novel (I read the first 11 and gave up half way through the final one – so you can imagine just how fed up with it I was). It seemed to me that non-Christians were doing a better job of writing about Christian themes (Stephen King, The Stand. for example).

But the theme of Lucifer’s fall was so intriguing to me that I couldn’t resist, and thank God I didn’t. I’m so glad that Wendy didn’t write some caricature of Lucifer cackling and rubbing his hands together. That was a trap that Jerry Jenkins fell into with the Left Behind books making the Antichrist a stereotype of some cartoon villain. Wendy Alec shows great maturity and a firm grip of scripture in this novel, not to mention a great understanding of the character of God.

I do have a question for those who have read this marvellous novel, however: Did you sympathise with Lucifer? There he is, Prince Regent, Yehovah’s Viceroy and adored of Heaven; then he hears about God’s plan to create a new race, a race of men with God’s own genetic code. Mankind would not be Angelic; they would have the ability to replicate and multiply and would supplant the Angelic Host. Angels were not sufficient for God’s need for fellowship.

I think that’s where this book scores for me. Wendy Alec came to it with understanding and respect.

I can’t wait for the second in the Chronicles of Brothers: Messiah next October (2006).

The Fall Of Lucifer is a very worthy novel, well written, exciting, vast in scope and extremely enjoyable. To use a literary cliché, I couldn’t put it down.

Congratulations to Wendy. Long may she continue to enthral a readership that (I believe) will grow and grow.

It's like Marmite!
It would appear that readers seem to either love or hate this book. I have to say I started off in the latter camp as the early chapters just seemed to waffle on with the descriptions of heaven. But once the story really got started I was hooked and moved firmly into the 'love it' camp. So do give it a chance if you're feeling bogged down at the beginning, bear with it - it's worth it. It has some thoughtful and thought provoking ideas. Looking forward to Messiah!