Stedfast, who had been Adam's guardian angel in Eden, is called from his place in Paradise to minister and ease the passage of dying souls into heaven, and he recalls the loss of his first battle with Satan eons before
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.
• Like the last two books, this one is also very moving. I do see the progression that Elwood was trying to achieve by the different points of view that he was using in each book. One thing I do sort of worry about is how much can you pull on someone’s heartstrings. Many of the examples that he used in this book were the most emotional moments in a person’s life. That was the same in the previous two books as well. I do like that in each he writes in the first person. Overall, the trilogy really has a good flow, and makes sense as a trilogy. One concern I have is that the following books will come off as a money grab because this original trilogy was so successful. We’ll see.
The third, and least "intense" of the trilogy. Very powerful and emotional. This is the book I would recommend for others to read the out of the three, as it focuses more on the redeemed ascending to heaven, rather than the opposite.