Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins - Apollyon: An Experience in Sound and Drama

Pros: Edge of your seat suspense
Cons: Nothing

This is the fifth book in the Left Behind series. As the series goes further into the period between the rapture and the ‘Glorious Appearing’, it just keeps getting better. Although, it took me almost a week to read this book, it was definitely...

Pros: great writing, realistic characters, action-packed
Cons: plot doesn't always go how I want it to

Introduction

Okay, I’m an official ‘Left Behind’ series junkie. I mean, I can’t get enough of this stuff. After I’ve finished one I go nuts waiting until I can get my next ‘fix.’ I’m only caught up to...

Pros: Action/Thriller that appeals to almost everyone with its Sci-Fi characters
Cons: Individuals who are not Christians, may dismiss this book and not give it a chance

End times prophecy and beliefs are something that is very controversial whether you are a Christian or not. Individuals who are not Christians do not believe in the prophecies of Revelations, Daniel, and other books of the Bible, and believers differ in...

Pros: As action packed as the first four books in the series
Cons: none

Apollyon is the fifth book in the Left Behind series. Like the others, it is packed full of adventure and life and death situations, though I felt this one went a little slower then the others. The time seemed to be spread out over the...

Pros: Exciting end-times account. More fast paced than the other books.
Cons: These books do not stand alone very well. You need to read the whole series from the beginning.

This book continues in the can't-put-it-down, read-it-in-one-night, dang-I-Hate-cliffhangers style as all the other books in the left behind series.

Once again, Apollyon (book 5 of the series) picks up where the last book, Soul Harvest, left...

Pros: A quick read with lots of adventure and excitement
Cons: You won't find much depth here and don't take the dogma seriously.

Over the past three months I have become a Left Behind junkie. This series gives a full blown, fictionalized account of the pre-millenialist (not a term related to the current millenium, but describing the timing of these events in relation to the Second...

Pros: Still has the action
Cons: Some dreary characters

Apollyon is another suspenseful chronicle of those left behind after the rapture. As the story opens, Rayford is battling doubts based on the mounting evidence that his late wife, Amanda, may have been a false believer. Buck and Chloe are debating...

Pros: Gets you thinking about the amount of time that's left...
Cons: Has the potential (<--notice that word) to bring a false hope.

As I think about how I want to comment on this book I have many thoughts. I have mixed emotions when I think about this book (and actually this whole series).

I love Jerry B. Jenkins writing style and have been very impressed by his ability...

Pros: Quick reading, believable characters
Cons: None

This is the fifth book in a fictional series based on the prophecies described in the book of Revelations in the Bible. The first book began with the Rapture, as believers in Christ around the world suddenly disappeared. Slowly, some people who doubted...

Pros: an OK book, if you like the formula. chases, betrayals, suspicion-you get my drift.
Cons: The formula is beginning to get old.

I believe I've gotten to the point where I can simply use names, without explaining the characters. I already have done so in other reviews, which I'll leave links to in the text. I read them out of order; I skipped ...

Pros: The story line keeps you wanting more, and makes it very hard to put the book down.
Cons: The story ends at a critical point, and makes it hard to wait until the next book comes out.

This book, like the ones before it, is very suspenseful. The fact that it is based on the Bible, and is going to really come true, makes it downright scary. The author has a wonderful way of jumping from one character to another, which keeps you on your...

Pros: Thought provoking, action packed, unexpected events.
Cons: There are a few boring areas, no biggie though.

Here is yet another explosive book of the Left Behind series. In this one, new members of the Tribulation force are added, there is more death, but more believers, and then there is the undecided such as Hattie Durham and Chaim Rosenzweig.

As...

Pros: The drama and great battles against GOOD and EVIL.
Cons: the plots are becoming a little predictable in some parts

Hattie Durham, the former airline attendant and mistress of the antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia, is wracked with confusion about what to do with her illegitimate child, whose birth date is coming due. Rayford Steele, the airline pilot who flies...

Pros: Hard to put down, Enthralling Plot, Supernatural Thriller
Cons: None specific to this book (Cliffhangers after every book)

This is the fifth book in a series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins if you haven't read the other books then you will have a hard time catching up with the plot of this one. LaHaye and Jenkins have created their own post apocalyptic world based upon the...

Pros: Excellent continuation, leaves you wanting more
Cons: Would like a bit explanation of technical things

What is Apollyon? Got you guessing? You'll have to read about 75% of the book to find that out. Let's just say it is one of the Biblical "woes" of God in Revelations and it is one that you would not want to experience. The results of the...