Operation Dark Angel: The Rise of Nicolaitanes (The Apocalypse, #1) in Willing To Review Christian Group

Apr 28, 2013 Tracy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Full disclosure: I was e-mailed a PDF of this book for an honest review. I have done the best that I can at being honest about my thoughts about this book.

The book opens with the prophesied birth of Niclotaines who was born to a virgin like Jesus. Over twenty years later, he enters politics and runs an architecture company. The company builds many top secret military installations in the US and other countries. His people create a more powerful biological weapon and missiles that can evade radar Full disclosure: I was e-mailed a PDF of this book for an honest review. I have done the best that I can at being honest about my thoughts about this book.

The book opens with the prophesied birth of Niclotaines who was born to a virgin like Jesus. Over twenty years later, he enters politics and runs an architecture company. The company builds many top secret military installations in the US and other countries. His people create a more powerful biological weapon and missiles that can evade radar. With this technology, NIclotaines begins a campaign to cause chaos in the world. General Ludlow was selected by Niclotaines to head Operation Dark Angel. The general thought the operation was an attempt to bring about world Peace. Over time, he comes to see that he was lied to. While Niclotaines seems to be controlling the chaos and destruction, God is intervening in every area of the operation.

There are some things that I loved about the book while other things had me wanting to throw things. The best parts was the fast based battle between good and evil and the intriguing characters. Niclotaines seems to be able to communicate using a voice in the recipient's head. However, the voice is present even before Niclotaines' birth. A mysterious man appears at times with guidance for the Christians and disappears just as quickly. Also Niclotaines is a direct descendant of Nero Germanicus. (Emperor Nero is well known martyring Christians in the early years of the Christian church.)

The main thing that frustrated me was the author's choice to ignore point of view writing rules. I know that other Christian fiction authors have chosen to ignore these rules because this genre involves internal conflict. I felt that the scenes involving a character witnessing to another character or Bishop Williams preaching or speaking with a new believer were too long. The other frustrations was more minor such as the Pope's succession had no conclave and a large amount of characters at the beginning. I managed to get the characters straight as I continued to read the book.
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Aug 21, 2013 Gregory Booker rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Pam Funke sent me a copy of Operation Dark Angel: Rise of Nicolaitanes in exchange for review of my book it through a Goodreads Group: Willing to Review Christian Books. The book was sent to me as a free pdf copy and has over 300 pages. Unfortunately, I have decided to publish my comment without finishing the book due primarily of having to sit at my desktop computer to read it. This is my least preferred method for reading and is the only reason I've decided to post my review after taking 2 mon ...more

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Aug 28, 2013 Tremayne Moore rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

When I started reading Operation Dark Angel, I didn't know what I was in for. Now, I'm a little familiar with the Left Behind series but I'm definitely familiar with prophetic movies such as A Thief In The Night & A Distant Thunder (both from the 70s), Operation Dark Angel takes it up a notch. The prologue starts off with a shock (don't want to give this book away).

Operation Dark Angel is in my opinion part fiction, but the prophecy is not. I found myself reading it and thinking one, this is a ...more

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Apr 08, 2014 Diana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was an interesting story though very long. I enjoyed the idea of what could be done to create world chaos with technology- very real and very scary. Though the book seemed long and I had a little trouble keeping all the people straight, it held my interest to see how this was all going to play out. I was disappointed that it didn't really wrap it up at the end, but instead led you into the next book in the series. I was given a copy of this book for my honest review. ...more

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