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Rating  - More soap opera, little substance
The "Left Behind" series is a perfect example on how to take an interesting concept and turn it into a bad series. "Apollyon" is the fifth book in the series and 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 and 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, but in that area, it fails. It is slow, full of lengthy monogolues and badly written dialogue.
Rating  - Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed
Apollyon came is great condition and had visible damage. I thought that the books cover was a little worn, that comes with age. I feel that buying used books on amazon is a good buy, if you don't mind saving money.
Rating - Series of books drag on forever
This series of books started out interesting but then it just dragged on forever as though they just wanted to make money by getting you to buy the next book. The whole series could have been done in 1 or 2 books. Only one significant thing happens in each book which should be a chapter in a book not the entire book. It also starts to go in to the ridiculous and never ends. I quit and don't care about what happens. Enough is enough all ready. The series is way out there.
Rating - A bit better than before...
After reading number four in the series and being a tiny bit disappointed, the title of this one had me excited that perhaps the storyline would pick up again and really take off once more. It implied action, and while I must admit that the storyline did indeed pick up some in the fifth book over the fourth, the series itself is still losing momentum. The first three books captured my attention and riveted me but these last two have left me feeling a bit "preached to" and not really feeling the characters as much as I'd like. I'm not happy about the writer's decisions about what to do with two of the characters I thought were leads who seem to be absent from the plot now. It left me feeling a bit dispassionate about the series compared to how I felt before.
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