Where Angels Dare

Angelwalk #8

by Roger Elwood

The 5th volume of the best-selling Angelwalk series. Bret Erlandson, a family man and political activist, wages a war with the bright lights and cheap thrills of the gambling casinos. His only hope for victory is an angel named Darien - a soldier of God who has faced these battles many times before. This is the powerful and poignant story of lives wrecked by gambling fever, of desperate players who trade their souls for chips, coins, and a shot at the jackpot. Only the power of God can save them from temptation.

183 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Roger Elwood was an American science fiction writer and editor, perhaps best known for having edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers in the early 1970s. Elwood was also the founding editor of Laser Books and, in more recent years, worked in the evangelical Christian market.

Reviews

[Tamcamry]

• January 26, 2010: What an unmitigated pile of crap! This has to be the worst book on my list. I really wanted this book to be good. The first four books in this series were pretty good. I guess I can understand if Elwood feels strongly that gambling is bad. And if he wants to write a book that shows the ills and consequences of gambling that’s his right. But first this book has very little story to it. It sort of follows an anti-gambling activist who ends up starting a ministry to help those whose lives have been ruined by gambling. It really doesn’t explain their whole story, though. Also, it follows two elderly women who end up committing suicide because their lives have been ruined by gambling. It doesn’t really explain or illustrate how they got to the point that they felt their only option left was to commit suicide. Instead, you just sort of skip right to the end. I wish I would’ve skipped right to the end and not read this book. I feel cheated.

****It's not that I haven't rated this book, I can't give it even one star. It really was that bad.***

[Jeff]

I've been really interested in angels recently, and this book was on my shelf. I guess it was good in that it really focused on telling the story from the perspective of the angels. I really appreciated not necessarily the whole battling between angels and demons (even though that was what the story was about... demons didn't take a place in the storyline officially)... There were some parts to the storyline where I felt the writer took to much of an Evangelical perspective, and wish he would just tell the story with angels as Christians in general could agree with. I also feel that the author took an escapist route at times, with the final solution to "leave" the God-forsaken place. I just think of all the ministries that are doing amazing work AMIDST those God-redeemed places....and think why? But then again, I'm sure at times in my life that happened and that I will do that...so who am i to judge? But then again, it's a story... i just wish there was a better job in terms of recognizing that people can fight the systems at times. It was an okay read.

[Kristy]

I wasn't that impressed at all with this book!