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Title: Lightfall

Author: Christian Carvajal

Narrator: Christian Carvajal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-14

Publisher: Carv's ThinkyWorks

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In Sugar Roses, Oklahoma, events tumble rapidly toward the End of the World. We're introduced to a cross-section of this fervently Baptist college town as it struggles to comprehend a series of supernatural phenomena: roadkill returned to life, a little girl who speaks classical Greek, an ominous shortwave signal, and a demonic voice that calls itself the Megatron. No less foreboding is the news from around the world, in which Christian fundamentalists and Muslim terrorists alike seem hellbent on hastening the Apocalypse. Who or what caused these mysterious events? And if they do presage the foretold Rapture, what on earth - or beyond - will come after? Lightfall is a secular, satirical thrill ride, in which all humanity's glories and vanities can be seen in one lyrical, hypocritical microcosm. The Lightfall is coming....

Members Reviews:

The end is coming

The first thing you need to know about Christian Carvajalâs Lightfall is that it is funny. The second thing you need to know is that it is true, not true in the sense of a dull recitation of historical facts but truth in spirit and intent (and for all we know and as you may discover when you get near the end of this book, it just might be a historical recitation of facts after all).

Lightfall is the story of the apocalypse, the rapture, the end of the world as we know it (or think we know it), as experienced by the denizens of Sugar Roses, Oklahoma, âwhere Jesus looks a lot like Kenny Loggins.â Sugar Roses, a fictional town, is the quintessential small town in the heart of the Bible Belt âclustered around a minor college campus but focused on its forty church spires,â where âfive thousand families eat hearty suppers behind bay windows and unlocked front doors.â It is a town whose major industry is Saving Grace, Inc., purveyors of Christian novelty items and where you will find, not far away, a Christian nudist camp.

The story is cram packed with clever word play and pop-culture references, but right under the surface of all this playfulness is very serious theology and social study. In places, it almost but not quite becomes mired in didactic sermonizing or theorizingâbut the authorâs intelligence and wit saves it.

The core story of the people of Sugar Rosesâincluding an atheistic womanizing college professor, a librarian, and a Hollywood script writer back home to write a script about Sugar Rosesâ one and only notorious crimeâis interrupted repeatedly and cleverly by emails, blog posts and stories from the local newspaper which paint a picture of the town and its reactions to the strange events that portend the coming of the end.

Unlike many of the other reviewers who have praised Carvajalâs depiction of characters, I think the bookâs biggest drawback is that the central characters are not developed as fully as I wish they were. Itâs a relatively short book, and I feel it could have benefitted from an additional fifty or so pages to help readers get to know these characters even better. I tended to get lost in some of the asides and forget some of the major characters.

Overall, Lightfall is a unique, well written, enjoyable and thought provoking book. I highly recommend it for thinking people.

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This book, Lightfall, is an intriguing look at the return of Christ to Ada Oklahoma.