Tudo começou há muitos e muitos anos, há tantos anos quanto o número de estrelas no céu, o Paraíso Celeste foi palco de um terrível levante. Um grupo de anjos guerreiros, amantes da justiça e da liberdade, desafiou a tirania dos poderosos arcanjos, levantando armas contra seus opressores. Expulsos, os renegados foram forçados ao exílio, e condenados a vagar pelo mundo dos homens até o dia do Juízo Final.

Mas eis que chega o momento do Apocalipse, o tempo do ajuste de contas, o dia do despertar do Altíssimo. Único sobrevivente do expurgo, o líder dos renegados é convidado por Lúcifer, o Arcanjo Negro, a se juntar às suas legiões na batalha do Armagedon, o embate final entre o Céu e o Inferno, a guerra que decidirá não só o destino do mundo, mas o futuro do universo.

Das ruínas da Babilônia ao esplendor do Império Romano; das vastas planícies da China aos gelados castelos da Inglaterra medieval. A Batalha do Apocalipse não é apenas uma viagem pela história humana, mas é também uma jornada de conhecimento, um épico empolgante, cheio de lutas heroicas, magia, romance e suspense.

A batalha do apocalipse colocará o estreante Eduardo Spohr ao lado dos mais criativos ficcionistas da nossa literatura.

I honestly don't understand the hype of this book. It was pretty much like reading a giant fan fiction of a crossover between Saint Seiya and the Bible. The book did have a lot of potential and happened in a pretty cool universe, which happens to be the world where we live in, but in a more unstable state, in the eminence of a war breakthrough (if you think about it, is not very far from reality) in addition to a "spiritual" world, where angels and demons live in eternal conflict. The main character, a renegade angel named Ablon, wants to end the conflict between heaven and hell at the same time that he aims for the revenge of his fallen comrades and the protection of human kind. This would have the potential to make a very nice story... if it wasn't for the way it was written.

It isn't unclear. On the contrary, the writing style is quite descriptive and somewhat simple. What ruined the book for me was the excessive use of words that are not very common. And when I mean excessive, I meant to say "3 in every 10 words the author uses are that new word". The book ends up sounding awfully artificial with the mixture of what was supposed to be a formal ancient form of communication and the way young people speak nowadays.

I didn't find the flashbacks very useful for the story itself. They only seem to drag it back, making it actually kinda boring. It gets worse when the narrative form changes to first person's point of view. Ablon, when telling his story, seems to keep repeating things like "what I have seen with my absolutely awesome-better-than-your eyes" or "when I executed that super powerful move that no human can match" and things similar to that. After a while, it gets annoying and you realize how unnecessary those repetitions were. Okay Ablon, we get it. You are a super powerful entity, we knew that from the first page. YOU DON'T NEED TO REPEAT THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

The plot itself wasn't anything extraordinary or innovative. You can actually see what's coming up next and even how it will end.

Not a bad book overall, but I found it somewhat dull and boring. Definitely not something I would read again. ( )