Book Review: "Sword of Vengeance" by Chris Adams
The Book the Modern Soul Has Been Waiting For
🗡️ Sword of Vengeance — The Book the Modern Soul Has Been Waiting For
| 22 June 2025 | Old Truths. New Battles!
“The line is drawn, the curse is cast…” — Bob Dylan
“We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers…” — Ephesians 6:12
📖 A Modern Fantasy That Feels Like It Was Forged in the Desert with Moses, Milton, and Mott the Hoople
There’s a moment in Sword of Vengeance—a small, quiet moment—when the hero, Gerald Caelen, stands before the elders of his knightly order and refuses to kneel. The ceremony expects obedience. The world demands performance. But Gerald? He’s looking for the truth.
Right there—that’s when I knew this wasn’t just another sword-and-sorcery romp.
This book is doing something old. Something heavier. Something necessary.
In a world choking on irony, Gerald’s journey is an antidote: a story about honor, betrayal, and the long road to redemption that begins when a man decides he will not bow to what is false—even if it costs him everything.
⚔️ The Premise: Rescue the Prince, Resist the Empire, Redeem the World
“In a land under siege by a relentless evil empire, a desperate mission to rescue a captured prince could save the world—or doom it.”
Gerald Caelen is a newly sworn knight, an orphan of war, and a man with nothing to lose—except the faint hope that the world might still be worth saving. Haunted by the sins of the past, he is thrust into a perilous mission to rescue Prince Richard Calladorus before the prince is sacrificed in a dark rite by Adrian Zartun, the warlock who razed Gerald’s home and murdered his family.
Joined by a band of warriors, a sharp-tongued assassin, and spellcasters whose magic may destroy them all, Gerald must navigate the treacherous Videronian Empire. The journey becomes more than a quest—it becomes a crucible, where every step tests the line between vengeance and virtue.
✝️ Not Just Fantasy—Theology in a Battle Cloak
Most modern fantasy divorces the spiritual from the magical. This book doesn’t. The darkness here isn’t vague “evil”—it’s specific, seductive, and theologically loaded. Zartun’s plan to merge with the powers of hell through sacrifice evokes Moloch, Mephistopheles, and every real-world ideology that has tried to sacrifice the innocent for the illusion of control.
And Gerald isn’t just fighting Zartun.
He’s wrestling with what kind of man to be in a world where virtue looks like madness and compromise masquerades as wisdom.
“There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
🕯️ Echoes of the Ancient
This novel is laced with echoes from the Patristic Fathers and the pages of Scripture, but it never preaches. It embodies. Think Irenaeus with a longsword, or Chrysostom after a long march through enemy territory.
Gerald is like a psalmist trapped in a dark forest—pleading, battling, repenting. And the supporting cast? They’re not clichés. They’re wanderers like you and me—full of fear and grit, asking whether the light is still worth dying for.
🎸 The Soundtrack Is Old School (And That’s the Point)
If this book had a soundtrack, it would be Ian Hunter’s "When the Daylight Comes” meets The Hollies’ “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.” There’s a soul to it. A cost. A brotherhood forged not in fan service but in fire.
It’s not fantasy for escapism.
It’s epic fiction for the soul.
🧭 Final Take: The Future Might Just Need This
This book doesn’t just entertain. It fortifies. It reminds us what storytelling used to do—what it must do again:
Call men to courage.
Call women to wisdom.
Call readers to remember that the real war is not against each other, but against the powers that whisper, “You are alone,” and “It doesn’t matter.”
It does matter.
And Sword of Vengeance is a battle cry to remember why.
🚨 The Call: Want to Be One of the First to Wield the Sword?
The public launch of Sword of Vengeance is set for June 22.
But right now, Chris is calling for a handful of early readers—those brave enough to walk the path first, and kind enough to leave an Amazon review when the book goes live.
If this story calls to you—if you feel the old truths stirring in your bones—here’s what you can do:
✅ ACTION STEPS:
1. Preorder or request an early reader copy by clicking here.
2. Read the book before June 22.
3. Leave a review on Amazon the day it launches (or soon after) to help spread the word.
Your review helps this book cut through the noise, and we both know the world needs more Sword of Vengeance, and less sword of sarcasm.
“Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place...” — Ephesians 6:14
If you’re tired of fiction that only flatters the present, pick up a sword forged in the fires of eternity.
This one matters.
[📚 Preorder Sword of Vengeance now or request your early reader copy.
(Launches June 22 — share it, review it, ride for it.)
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