Lifting the Veil: Fallen

Lifting the Veil, Book 1

By: John O'Brien

Narrated by: Mark Gagliardi

Humanity is plunging down a slippery slope of morality. Righteous attitudes abound with malice, hatred, and discontent prevailing in the currents riding through humankind. In the spiritual planes, battles between the light and darkness are being fought over souls for their very existence. Assailed on all sides, heaven is left with no choice but to open the seven seals.

The horsemen are summoned and ride forth. Conquest, the drums of war, hunger, and death are felt by all.

Humanity is left standing on the brink where the slightest tremor will send it plunging into the abyss. Will humankind survive the tribulation placed upon it? Or will it vanish into oblivion?

©2018 John O'Brien (P)2018 John O'Brien

Good book

I won't lie I struggled with this book, it was very "technical" with a bit of story in it. After reading the reviews though I figured I was not alone so decided to give the rest of the series a try, I am glad I did. This book is really about setting everything up for the next books, stick with it, you won't regret it!

I really enjoyed this 1st book in the Ceres

While it was tedious at some points I enjoy the book nonetheless. Thank you for

One of John O'Briens best books

What an amazing book. From start to end I enjoyed how well he was able to combine religious history regardless of your faith and what society is going through today, with a sprinkle of what could possibly happen in the future. I can not wait for part two of this book.

That was very visceral!

The level of thought put into this work was excellent. I this gave me a better understanding of one possible Armageddon.

awesome

Really interesting first book in the series. Only if someone else was reading it lol

Not his best work.

I love John O'brien. This is not his best work. there are no real main characters to invest in. 75% of the book is describing the apocalypse. This feels more like an extremely long pro logue than a book meant to cause the reader to invest in the story and characters. I was almost let down. But Gagliardi make anything sound great. I listened to it twice to make sure I didn't miss anything. I most defenitely did not. One long pro logue.

phenomenal

edge of the seat. compelling read. scary reality though. makes me ready to prepare a bunker now.

The story is a modern take on "Paradise Lost".

I stopped when it brought up negative right-wing examples, but didn't label Left-wing examples as Leftwing. The author brought up Charletsville as a right-wing incident, when it was both. He got some of the facts wrong too. The governor called a State of Emergency an hour before the event and before there was any violence. The author implied it was because of the violence. He also claimed a woman was killed by the car incident. She was never hit by the car. The woman thrown in the air that was seen on National television was not the one who died. The woman was hit by people who were plowed through by the car. She died of a heart attack. He then brings up the Dallas shooting of 5 officers. The author failed to mention the shooter was a black radical. My problem is that he went to great extent to blame supposed Right-wingers for violence, but did not do the same for the Left. I say supposed because the Alt-Right has all the same views as Democrats if you ignore the Social ones. They want big government, but only for whites. He then goes on to spew a lot of global warming talking points. That's when I had to stop listening. I loved his other books, but this one got too preachy for me. I want to get away from politics when I listen to books, not be subtly preached to. This is one of few times I'm requesting a refund.

very interesting

this is a very interesting story based off deamons and angles. as a start of a series it's good. let's see how it continues. thank you for the new series John O'Brien.

Is there supposed to be a narrative hidden in here?

This fever dream seems to be much more an amalgam of morality plays than a narrative. I need to buy the pdf to see how many times the author mentions greed, racism (though I don’t think he ever uses the word), pollution, etc. I’m not terribly sure when the ‘story’ takes place as the closest thing you get to a main character is Michael, but you only see him between hours long descriptions of gruesome (and pointless) violence or vague descriptions of what the horsemen did at some point in history. Like if you were to take out all of the anti-science, anti-humanist sentiments/vignettes, the book would be an hour and a half long.
I don’t care that the author uses modified Christian mythos, but the weird inclusion of a “council” in heaven that rule with the Christian god seems quite out of place.
It feels more like a manifesto than like a novel.
I don’t often return audiobooks, but this book’s butt is going back on the shelf.