The Sounding's storyline has me gripped early, with both the events that occur and Salo’s way of writing made for an enthralling story.Įxtensive world building, which is found in most fantasy novels, was unnecessary here as events takes place in the real world. And it proved to be a very good, and a very interesting story.

Having not previously read any Church-based/apocalyptic-themed books (even Dan Brown) before I thought this would be a good place to start. I was first drawn to Carrie Salo's The Sounding by its synopsis. As they travel across continents on their mission, the demonic force follows relentlessly, waiting in every shadowed corner, and every dark place.Īs Armageddon descends, Father Chris finds that his only hope lies in a young woman within the group who has a secret gift – and their belief that God Himself may have sent her to keep the final angelic trumpet from sounding out the early end of the Earth. They are not alone, however an evil as old as time itself hunts them. He is joined by a band of unlikely allies, and together they find themselves in Rome above the Vatican Necropolis – the city of the dead – where the future is revealed to them in ancient texts. Suddenly, Chris finds himself fighting against time and hell to keep the prophecies in order and stop an early Armageddon.

The final battle is coming too soon – long before humanity is prepared to win it. While the killing seems isolated at first, the society ties the murder to the final Biblical prophecy and a terrifying omen that the order of the prophecies is about to be disrupted. The society asks Chris to investigate an unusually grotesque crime – a murder on a college campus where the killer's hand literally burned off the victim's face.

Each angel waits to sound their trumpet at God’s appointed time, preparing humanity to fight and win the final battle.Ģ,000 years later, Father Chris Mognahan is a member of the Hetairia Melchizedek, a secret society within the Catholic Church that studies Biblical omens. He dreams of the final prophecies that will come to pass – and the seven archangels that guard them. In the Book of Revelation, a man named John has a prophetic dream. The Sounding, a supernatural and apocalyptic-themed story, is the debut novel of Carrie Salo.

The Sounding by Carrie Salo