- This was a finalist for the 2011 INSPY awards.
I also recommend:
- Tunnel Vision by Gary Braver
Summary from GoodReads:
Native America Dylan Runs Ahead is running away. He ran from the Crow Reservation where he grew up because he felt responsible for his sister’s disappearance. He ran to the Army, but after his leg was mangled and his buddy was killed when a bomb exploded, he had to escape from those memories too. Now he’s gotten mixed up in the wrong line of business and he’s running from people who would prefer him dead.
But then he meets a woman named Quinn. She claims to see things that others don’t and tells him that he’s “chosen.” Oddly enough, his buddy in Iraq kept telling him the same thing. Before Dylan Runs Ahead can figure out what that really means, though, he’s going to have to stop and face the demons–both literal and figurative–that he’s been running from.
My Review:
Okay – first of all, I really loved the Native American aspect of this book. Among other things, it really reminded me that I need to devote some time to reading some Native American literature. I really have no excuse right now, because one of my professors wrote her dissertation on a Native American author, as well as wrote an Encyclopedia of Native American works and authors.
That said, The Falling Away is part-thriller, part-supernatural, part-just-plain-creepy-Twilight-zone-esque, story. It has got it all, folks. Murder, running from the law, spiritual warfare, crazy cults, science fiction, drugs, smuggling – you name it, it’s an edge of your seat, this book is not going to let you put it down thriller.
It also won the 2011 INSPY awards.
I was really impressed, overall, with the quality of books being nominated this year, and I really, really enjoyed this piece of fiction. I’m not always the biggest fan of Christian or Inspirational literature – so I consider myself to be rather tough on these type of books, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one – which tells you something!
That all said, I will say – in the interest of full disclosure, that there were parts that had me a bit confused. The whole “chosen” bit, and the warriors seemed really vague – almost as if Hines didn’t want to cross any lines by making it seem like corny Christian-speak. I got that Quinn was considered to be a type of “Warrior” against the dark agents (I almost said force, y’all, I really have been watching too many Star Wars reruns on TV). But until things started to get knitted together at the end, I admit to being in a bit of a fog and fairly confused as a result.
Still, The Falling Away is a worthwhile read, and the perfect book to those who love both inspirational as well as science fiction/paranormal type books.
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