The book focuses on humans fighting both heaven and hell with conventional, or unconventional firearms. But even though it is beautifully awesome at depicting the human military. The demonic, and heavenly militants aren't depicted with biblical accuracy in mind.
Demons in the bible are either described as creatures that are impossible, or as spirits. So a biblical version of the battle would involve possession, misinformation, and killing off witnesses via assassination. A far cry from the glorious battle, and stampeding hellbeasts depicted in the text.
And even if this is a general interpretation of the demons, It is has a more literal interpretation of god. More specifically, christianic god. Admittedly, I am biased in my perspective, because I am a christian. and even though he uses names of various christianic angels, no one really acts like they would if it were according to the bible. In the bible, angels are terrifying to the point of "kill it on sight", or "cower in fear" being regular reactions to seeing these things. And biblically demons are basically angels with a bad motive. Yet somehow they have different powers, angels look beautiful, and demons are red horned testosterone powered berzerkers.
If you're an atheist, then it might be a good read due to the military tactics, the "because we can" moments of total ordnance based destruction, and scientific perspective of explaining how these insane powers are gained by demons. But don't take the demons, or angels as accurate.
Some parts are good, others are not.
The book focuses on humans fighting both heaven and hell with conventional, or unconventional firearms. But even though it is beautifully awesome at depicting the human military. The demonic, and heavenly militants aren't depicted with biblical accuracy in mind.
Demons in the bible are either described as creatures that are impossible, or as spirits. So a biblical version of the battle would involve possession, misinformation, and killing off witnesses via assassination. A far cry from the glorious battle, and stampeding hellbeasts depicted in the text.
And even if this is a general interpretation of the demons, It is has a more literal interpretation of god. More specifically, christianic god. Admittedly, I am biased in my perspective, because I am a christian. and even though he uses names of various christianic angels, no one really acts like they would if it were according to the bible. In the bible, angels are terrifying to the point of "kill it on sight", or "cower in fear" being regular reactions to seeing these things. And biblically demons are basically angels with a bad motive. Yet somehow they have different powers, angels look beautiful, and demons are red horned testosterone powered berzerkers.
If you're an atheist, then it might be a good read due to the military tactics, the "because we can" moments of total ordnance based destruction, and scientific perspective of explaining how these insane powers are gained by demons. But don't take the demons, or angels as accurate.