Messiah of the Fallen Earth

Messiah of the Fallen Earth
Raven Jake
Primal Sin Publications
ISBN: 0-9778994-0-3
Fiction, Dark Fantasy
Reviewed by Ernest Dempsey

Somewhere in an unspecified time, unspecified setting, and scantily sketched society, we meet a self-absorbed young man named Vincent who is fighting an uncertain war against forces of hypocritical politics as well as his own inner darkness. Whether he wins or loses is open to decide, depending on the reader’s subjective interpretation. What is generally clear about Raven Jake’s Messiah of the Fallen Earth is the frumpy character of the story for almost two hundred pages until the author suddenly turns the tables on the reader by unusual psychological insight and inversion of the story’s monotonous progress.
The quasi-philosophical beginning of the story is retaken with renovated force toward the end and we can hardly resist appreciating the author’s immense power of description. The sentences and passages are forceful in construction and effect. However, the main problem with the book is that it continues to protract the confusion about the characters and plot almost indefinitely so that upon reaching the interesting end, we are too exhausted to appreciate the climax.
Messiah of the Fallen Earth questions human ways of living and thinking in more than one way. Raven Jake succeeds in showing us through the eyes of a child what it means to violate humanity. What the author falls short of achieving is steady interest of the reader in each and every page of the book.