Even highly successful lawyers need to worry about getting
to the daycare centre on time and Brek Abigail Cuttler is
no exception. After a busy day working on client files,
Brek feels a little guilty about being the last parent to
arrive, but is happy to pick up her beloved daughter
Sarah and inhale her sweet baby smells. But, her reality
as a successful lawyer and happily married wife to a news
anchorman soon fades away as Brek suddenly arrives at an
unusual and deserted place called Shemaya Station, her
smart black power lawyer suit covered in blood.
Greeted by an older man called Luas who seems to look like
an old mentor of hers, Brek slowly starts to remember the
details of her life, but the happenings around her death
elude her. Getting used to this new unusual and fantastic
world with its four season environment takes time but as
Brek gradually realizes that she has in fact died, she
finds it in some ways liberating -- no more deadlines,
rushing to appointments or worried about financial
penalties for arriving late at the daycare. Having lost
her right arm as a child, Brek finds she still looks the
same -- except for the three bullet holes in her body that
seem to vanish over time.
Brek is told that due to her success as a lawyer on earth,
her new role in heaven is to be a Presenter for other
souls, so justice can prevail. To do this, she needs to
absorb all the memories of the other person's life, so a
balanced and objective editing for a verdict can be made.
Brek is shocked about how the process works and rails
against it, yet, she also realizes that she needs to
participate in it. As she feels and experiences the
memories of others, Brek discovers some astonishing
intersections in their lives' paths and past secrets that
she and they had blocked from others. Decisions made with
unforeseen consequences. Can she really give a just
accounting to those who have committed heinous crimes? Will
she find what she longs for the most?
With his exceptional background in law and spirituality,
debut author James Kimmel, Jr. has written a powerful and
intriguing account of a symbolic and unusual afterlife that
examines in differing ways the centuries old questions of
justice, forgiveness, love and crime. While part
philosophy, part mystery, part spiritual, THE TRIAL OF
FALLEN ANGELS revolves around a world of legal presenters,
trails and judging. Ultimately, however, it is about the
choices we make in life and their effects on ourselves, our
loved ones and on the future. As people are sure to react
to it in differing ways and from different points of view,
it will be a great selection for a book club.
I loved the
story and the imagination in THE TRIAL OF FALLEN ANGELS and
am definitely going to recommend it for my group for the
fun of debating it. Do check it out! It is an
incredible, page turning thought provoking read! Enjoy!
Brek Cuttler has it all: a husband she loves, a daughter she
adores, a successful law practice. And then one day
everything she has ever known disappears. Brek finds herself
standing on a deserted train platform, covered in blood. As
she tries to comprehend what is happening to her, a man from
her past approaches and explains that she has been chosen to
join the elite team of lawyers charged with prosecuting and
defending souls at the Final Judgment.
As Brek struggles to find her way back to her husband and
daughter, she will discover that her first client holds the
shocking secret of her fate. That seemingly disparate events
during her life have conspired to bring her to a single
moment in time that will determine her eternity. And that
every act of kindness and cruelty sets in motion things
beyond our wildest imaginations.
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