Today, my friends, I have a unique tale of spiritual warfare for you — Chuck Black’s Cloak of the Light.
Drew is caught in a world of light – just inches away from the dark
What if…there was a world beyond our vision, a world just fingertips beyond our reach? What if…our world wasn’t beyond their influence?
Tragedy and heartache seem to be waiting for Drew Carter at every turn, but college offers Drew a chance to start over—until an accident during a physics experiment leaves him blind and his genius friend, Benjamin Berg, missing.
As his sight miraculously returns, Drew discovers that the accident has heightened his neuron activity, giving him skills and sight beyond the normal man. When he begins to observe fierce invaders that no one else can see, he questions his own sanity, and so do others. But is he insane or do the invaders truly exist?
With help from Sydney Carlyle, a mysterious and elusive girl who offers encouragement through her faith, Drew searches for his missing friend, Ben, who seems to hold the key to unlocking this mystery. As the dark invaders close in, will he find the truth in time?
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If you’re into the ordinary-guy-gets-superpowers trope, then this is for you. The first book follows Drew through his teens and into his adult life and the moment when everything he thought about Christianity gets flipped on its head. The Wars of the Realm series continues with POVs from Validus, the angel assigned to protect Drew, and alternates between the two as Drew fights to save the United States and Validus races to save his charge’s soul.
Now, I have heard people protest at the liscense Black takes in the story, especially as pertains to Biblical mysteries. He does his research very well and includes all of his references, but of course there’s a lot we don’t know about angels and spiritual warfare, and that’s acknowledged. It’s a fictional story, not meant to be a guide in theology but rather to make us think and remember that the physical is not all there is. Perfect for fans of Peretti’s This Present Darkness and Bryan Davis’s Dragons in Our Midst, this story is all the more important today where we’re inundated with messages that scoff at the idea of angels and demons, or reduce them to superpowered humans with questionable morality.
As Chuck Black is Christian, the series is quite clean. There is no language and a light romantic subplot. Violence is on par with late middle-grade to YA, and while frequent, as the demons and angels are constantly clashing, doesn’t ever get more graphic than blood, hand-to-hand, swordfighting, and shooting. Drew eventually gets deep into military/special ops stuff and the action intensifies. There is brief mention of the remains of a suicide bomber, and there is also a scene involving a school shooter, but it isn’t gory.
I myself deeply enjoyed this book and have read it over and over. The ending especially gets me. I highly recommend you check it out for yourself!
Any Chuck Black fans out there? Add a comment and let me know your thoughts! Have a lovely week, all.
Cheers!
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