17 Dec 2000

Tribulation Force (by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins)

'Tribulation Force' is a Christian dystopian thriller by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, second in the 'Left Behind' series.

This book really needs to be read as a sequel to 'Left Behind', the first in the series, in which the 'Rapture' happened, taking all Christians straight to heaven.

However, there are now some new believers who came to faith after the Rapture. In this book, they gradually learn to trust each other. But they also begin to realise just what they are up against in the final seven years before the apocalypse. The antichrist is clearly revealed, too, as a charming, plausible, yet cold-blooded world leader.

This book is exciting and almost believable, as a possible interpretation of some of the Biblical prophecies.  However, I found the characters to be a little flat. That was disappointing, as I had hoped to find more depth to the ones introduced in the first book.

Still, it's not a bad book. If you enjoyed the first one, this is worth reading too. 

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