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I got to know Anne Rice <\/a>through a long email interview with her for the St Austin Review. She was very friendly, and spoke at length about her return to the Catholic faith of her childhood. I first began to read her Christ the Lord<\/a> series of books, and after our correspondence she kindly sent me Called out of Darkness<\/a> \u2013her memoir and \u2018reversion\u2019 story.<\/p>\n

Now she has sent me he latest novel, Angel Time. <\/i>It\u2019s an enjoyable read. The main character, Toby O\u2019Dare is a solitary person\u2013a lost soul, hardened by suffering who has fallen into a profitable profession\u2013he\u2019s an assassin. When a guardian seraphim enters his life he is given the chance to time travel and redeem himself by saving the lives of others. I won\u2019t give away the plot, but the story is written in Anne\u2019s usual sensual, yet crystal clear style of writing. Once again she has researched the time periods she works with and moves effortlessly from modern day America to England in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a fantasy novel by one of the best Christian writers on the scene today. Like Dean Koontz (also a Catholic) Anne Rice writes marketable fiction with strong spiritual themes and a powerful sense of the supernatural pulse running beneath the observable world. Catholic commentators sometimes speak of the dearth of Catholic culture today, but along with Koontz and Rice, Pat Conroy is another contemporary Catholic writer doing good stuff in the mainstream.<\/p>\n

My only problem with Angel Time<\/i>\u00a0is that with the jump in time there really seem to be two stories here. I was just getting interested in Toby O\u2019Dare\u2019s downtime life in decadent and amoral modern America when I was thrown into another time and place. Once I got used to the jump I enjoyed the story. I was moved by Toby O\u2019Dare\u2019s growth towards redemption, and would recommend Angel Time<\/a> highly.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"