ROGUE ANGEL: Solomon's Jar (2006) by Alex Archer
Sunday, 15. October 2006, 04:28:21
Well I am rather grooving to this new series from Gold Eagle Books.The heroine of this piece is Annja Creed and Solomon's Jar is the second in the series (I will be reviewing the first, Destiny, shortly) Annja is an archeologist, unlike Indiana Jones or Sydney Fox, she isn't working in at a University not is she independently weathly like Lara Croft, she works as a presenter/expert for the cable show Chasing History's Monsters, I've seen similar sorts of things on The History Channel.
Annja is a very special girl because she has Joan of Arc's sword and her destiny is to protect the innocent (and this is explained more in Destiny) which gives the series a Tomb Raider meets Witchblade type of feel.
In this installment Annja hears about the possible discovery of Solomon's Jar, which according to the Bible King Solomon's imprisoned all the demons of the world, making it kinda like Pandora's box. So she hops on a plane to see if it is the real thing and starts to discover dead bodies - something is killing anyone who had possession of the Jar. Could it be demons?
Travelling around the world, Annja keeps bumping into Aidan Pascoe, an English archeologist who is also chasing the Jar.
There are also several rival groups after the Jar -including the Russian Mafia, an English cult and a Hollywood film star.
Who gets the Jar in the end? I'm not telling but it's not who you might think and we discover that an old enemy of Annja's is backing one of the groups.
Rogue Angel is certainly an enjoyable series with a super natural flavour. Annja is growing into her destiny to face these challenges and she struggles with questions of does she punish the guilty or protect the innocent?
WIDGETIZE
Anonymous # 3. December 2006, 13:40
Sounds like fun, Brad. I saw these at fictionwise not so long ago, but I was a bit worried they were romance-novel heavy. That is not the case then?
AggressorBrad # 3. December 2006, 21:34
Brad
Anonymous # 4. December 2006, 02:33
Excellent, thanks.
Anonymous # 10. December 2006, 21:54
I just finished the novel yesterday. I thought it was pretty good. Though, I think that it was a bit unrealistic for a woman with a sword to take on the number of gunmen she does in the end.
Anonymous # 16. January 2007, 09:48
I read the first one, 'Destiny' not too bad.
http://superprose.blogspot.com/2007/01/rogue-angel-1-destiny.html
Anonymous # 24. February 2007, 16:19
I've read Destiny and the new one The Chosen, where Annja investigates mysterious happenings in the Southwest. I liked them both.
Brightear # 28. October 2007, 20:11