Published: Nov. 03, 2012
Words: 93,991 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301701735

Short description

When Alezea is trapped by the Devil, she bears him a son and knows her life will never be her own. She is the mother of Thomas, a man reared by Satan to be a killer of life’s most innocent – little girls. When Alezea finds a way out, she will risk her very soul to free Thomas from his father. The fight to save her son will either redeem Alezea or destroy her forever.

Extended description

When Alezea is trapped by the Devil, she bears him a son and knows her life will never be her own. She is the mother of Thomas, a man reared by Satan to be a killer of life’s most innocent – little girls. Alezea lives detached from the horrors committed by her son and from her domination by the entity who uses her as he pleases. Until she meets Martha who shows her a way out. Now Alezea will risk her very soul to free Thomas from his father. The fight to save her son will either redeem Alezea or destroy her forever.

Rachel knows Thomas’ history, yet she believes her presence can transform him. Her belief in Thomas might send her fully into the Devil’s realm or provide an opening for God’s miracles in both of their lives. In a scheme to continue his father’s line, Thomas may ruin his alliance with Rachel or rend himself from the dominion he was born to hold. The impulse to contrive his future takes Thomas to new heights in his lifework as a killer, pushes him toward matu.. (Read more) When Alezea is trapped by the Devil, she bears him a son and knows her life will never be her own. She is the mother of Thomas, a man reared by Satan to be a killer of life’s most innocent – little girls. Alezea lives detached from the horrors committed by her son and from her domination by the entity who uses her as he pleases. Until she meets Martha who shows her a way out. Now Alezea will risk her very soul to free Thomas from his father. The fight to save her son will either redeem Alezea or destroy her forever.

Rachel knows Thomas’ history, yet she believes her presence can transform him. Her belief in Thomas might send her fully into the Devil’s realm or provide an opening for God’s miracles in both of their lives. In a scheme to continue his father’s line, Thomas may ruin his alliance with Rachel or rend himself from the dominion he was born to hold. The impulse to contrive his future takes Thomas to new heights in his lifework as a killer, pushes him toward maturity, and forces him to encounter the astonishing truth of his heritage.

Anticipation of the Penitent depicts the battle between good and evil in one family until it is rendered to its destined completion. Only then will it be known whether Alezea succeeds in her struggle for a life free from Satan’s control.
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Tags

crime, god, faith, speculative fiction, serial killer, redemption, satan, literary fiction, spiritual warfare, christian fiction, christian speculative fiction, hope and despair

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Review by: Sandra Padgett on April 24, 2013 :
Alezea grew up in a bad environment and left home as soon as she could. She eventually had a son whom she believed to be fathered by Satan. The son grew up believing he was the son of Satan. He did unspeakable acts and his mother helped him hide that fact. Eventually Alezea got into a caregiving job and befriended her employer. Alezea told her employer about her horrible past, before she left home and after she had her son. Her employer suggested she go to a place where she and her son could get help. The story delves into the heart and soul of Alezea and her life and later her sons life. The characters are so real I wish I knew them. The inner turmoil that the characters go through is heart wrenching, heartbreaking and real. No one is beyond the reach of Gods forgiveness and grace. It was a highly emotional, and at the same time needed, story for me. Way beyond five stars. I highly recommend this story.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Daniel Teets on April 23, 2013 :
“Anticipation of the Penitent” by Nancy LaRonda Johnson
(spoilers ahead, read at your own risk)
I really didn’t know what to expect coming in on this book. I had read the blurb about it on GoodReads and was intrigued, and decided to give it a read, figuring, “Hey, why not?” But when the book started with a woman deformed and blind, I was hooked instantly. I had to find out if this was something from the Middle Ages, or something from back in Biblical times, when they would parade out a demon-possessed woman to “tell fortunes” (Acts 16:16) “As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.”
But, instead, the story shifts back in time, and we see Azalea being visited by a being, and her son Thomas having to find a sacrifice for atonement for the being. Fortunately for the reader, there is never anything graphic in any of the descriptions, or the book may have been over the top with the violence and gore. You see, Azalea has been visited by the devil, and Thomas been the end result of the visitation, or so she thought. And with the initial visitation in the book, the story begins its rocky journey towards redemption.
Azalea is the first to try to escape the clutches of her imprisonment, taking Thomas off to a commune like town called Gabriel, where she finds God, but in the process loses her son and her body. Remember the deformed lady? Yea, that was her. After Thomas tries to kill another girl, and fails, Azalea tries to take her own life in the ultimate sacrifice, much like Christ did for the church. She blinds herself, breaks both her legs to the point where they have to be amputated, and messes up a hand to where it also needs to be amputated as well. But, she survives, and Thomas runs off, in her mind lost forever.
For most readers, they would shut the book and not want to read any more…. But not me. I pressed on, desiring to see what the end result of Thomas would be.
He finds one of Azalea’s cousin’s and they “fall in love” or lust, or whatever you wish to call it. The two run off and end up getting married and having a child. In the process, Thomas falls into his old ways and ends up killing two people, one of which he intended to, one who just got in the way. The cousin finds Jesus and begins to pray for Thomas, and he ends up finding peace in the end. I will not give away the ending, because there is a definite twist that I did not see coming, but I was crying at the end of the book.
This is a very well written book that I would recommend to anyone that says that they are too far gone to come back to God. It was very hard to put down each time I picked it up. I definitely count myself blessed to have read this book.
Overall rating: 4.75/ 5.00 stars.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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