Customer Reviews
Lackluster - By: Steven R. McEvoy, 04 Dec 2008 
In this series I never agreed with the author's theology. But the series started off as good fiction, entertaining, & were books that made a reader think about the end times. However as the series dragged on, the writing became weaker & weaker, & for myself & many I know the authors lost the audience. I never made it through the whole series & I doubt I will ever go back & finish it. It really is a pity - there was so much potentialin this series.
This book was an interesting interpretation of the third woe from the Book of Revelation. The plague of the locust attacking the word is donein vivid graphic narrative. The Trib Force team has both losses & gains. The most important is Hattie leaving & joining the dark side. Buck & Chloe have their child.
Yet even with all the action this was the turning point for me. I only made it through one more book of the 16in the series. The booksin publication sequence are:
Left Behind:
Tribulation Force
Nicolae: The Rise of the Antichrist
Soul Harvest:
Apollyon:
Assasins:
The Indwelling
The Mark
Desecration
The Remnant
Armageddon
Glorious Appearing
The Rising: The Antichrist is Born
The Regime: Evil Advances
The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye
Kingdom Come
In the end it just seemed like a money-making ploy, with graphic novels, cds, teen versions, a video game & more.
(First written as Journal Reading Notesin 1999.)
The Trumpets Seals unleashed - By: M. A. Ramos, 07 Oct 2007 
This is the fifth bookin the Left behind series. Some of the action, as usual, is not plausible. But we do have actionin this book. And the authors still manage to make it a page-turner. So if you read the others...go ahead & read it.
Rayford learns the truth about his wife. We have both Chaim Rosenzweig & Hattie come to believe the truth about what is required to be saved, but neither takes that necessary step. Chaim because of pride & Hattie because of hate. I found it hard to believe that a man of Chaim's intellect would allow pride to over ride everything he himself has seen & deduced from hard evidence. And Hattie, well they did a good job with her. She is so annoying I kept hoping she would be written out of the story.
The meeting of the 144,000 takes placein Israel & the Anti-Christ attends, as does the prophets of God. The story linein Jerusalem is well written & you could not only visualize what was transpiring. And the authors did a great job of brining the two prophets to life. And their is very good narrative on the Trumpet Seals as they are unleashed on the earth.
The only thing I would highly recommend is that you make sure to read this bookin its proper sequence. It cannot stand on its own.
More soap opera, little substance - By: NoWireHangers, 04 Sep 2007 The "Left Behind" series is a perfect example on how to take an interesting concept & turn it into a bad series. "Apollyon" is the fifth bookin the series & like the previous books, it is only a couple of chapters worth of material stretched into novel length. The first 200 pages should have been no more than 50 pages. Not until after the 200 page mark do the locusts appear & things start to get interesting, but this only lasts for one chapter. After that, it's back to the usual slow soap opera.
I'm not going to say anything about the theology or morality behind the book; I'm trying to read these books as entertainment, butin that area, it fails. It is slow, full of lengthy monogolues & badly written dialogue.
Fiction-lite - By: , 20 Oct 2000 If you'rein need of Sunday-school remedial lessons you may find something of valuein these incredibly light-weight novelettes. Stretched out to garner as many sales as is feasably possible, each of these commercial exploitations is a very superficial & unsophisticated read. In contrast, read Glen Kleier's complex & spiritually satisfying supsense thriller THE LAST DAY & you will see how much gold can be mined from this rich topic of the End of Time. For my money, there has to be more to a novel than simply a validation of fundamentalist Bible interpretations. I'm also looking for a story, characterization, & theological insight. These books are very disappointingin that regard.
this series MUST be read - By: xduncanx@hotmail.com, 25 Aug 2000 
Admittedly, i was still quite a new convert to the love that Christ has for us, having lived my life previously as an atheist, but this series has really helped me understand where things (especially Revelations)are coming fromin the Bible. I would recommend this book to anyone & i would challenge any non-Christians not to convert to the truth after reading this. Any book that i can readin 2 days without being able to put down must be worth the money! It's just a shame that we're left waiting for soooo long between paperback copies.
