The Silence in Heaven
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Publisher Description
Suppose that, God’s first creation was not angels as is widely accepted, but was instead an evil creature so vile in nature that the universe was created as a place to banish them. Why did the Creator simply not destroy this failed experiment? Why is evil allowed to exist at all? The answer to that agonizing question may be very simple…
The Celestial Chronicles Trilogy, begins with, The Silence in Heaven, introducing an unknown order of celestial beings banished to Earth in human form. The Silence in Heaven follows the Fallen Angel Tashum from his early days on Earth, stranded on a remote island until his introduction to the 16th century world of modern man and onward to truly modern times in which we live. While on his quest searching for his brother Paladin and others of his kind, he learns from an Angel-of-Light that something is not quite right in Heaven.
The Star-Seekers are featured in the second book in the series, Vows of Treason. These adventuresome angels were the first celestials to leave the Light and venture into the dark cosmos to map and report what they discovered in the newly formed and expanding universe. Their findings of physical worlds and self-replicating life forms sparked further debate between those fearful of creation and those supporting the grand experiment. But it was the survey indicating that the dark void was encroaching and swallowing up the Light from within that split Heaven, culminating in the great purge and banishment from the Light.
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Lord-Wolff's debut, an Information Age version of seraphic mutiny against the Almighty, takes a bloodthirsty stab at justifying fallen angels' perverse ways to humanity. Zapped by universe-shaking lightning around 40,000 B.C. for innocently speaking his mind, the mighty Celestial Tashum lands on Stone Age Bermuda, agonizingly separated from heavenly Light, from his fellow rebels and from his beloved brother Paladin. The telepathic Tashum searches fruitlessly for Paladin across continents and centuries, torn between pity and revulsion for the half-bestial, half-angelic humans who somehow had split heaven. In 1509, Tashum rescues two particularly repulsive specimens, Fanny and Dickey, from a shipwreck, but the life-saving ammoniac ichor from Tashum's angelic veins turns them into free-wheeling vampires. Extended into the contemporary world where Tashum enjoys phenomenal wealth through gambling, the bulk of this confusing exercise in implausibility traces his increasingly campy battles with Fanny, Dickey and their nasty cowboy-toy Victor to win control of the "orbs" Tashum needs to juggle his way back to Paradise. So poor are these characterizations that, by comparison, Lord-Wolff's two-dimensional spectrum of fallen angels, from the saintly to the unspeakable Mayhem, look almost appealing. Nothing, however, can save this novel--the launch of a projected trilogy--from its miseries: characters vanish, then inexplicably resurface; scenes shift without justification or punctuation; plot lines sprawl into pandemonium. Siphoning off the grandeur of his Miltonic inspiration and transfusing it with foggily redundant obscenities, Lord-Wolff denatures evil into sniggering adolescent angst.
