Sins of Fallen: is it a Christian book?

The Answer Is Complicated—And Real.
By Brandy Marks

When people sometimes ask me: Is this a Christian book?
And my answer is always the same:
It depends on what you think that means.
If by Christian you mean sanitized, and only  for Sunday school—then NO. This book likely will shock you with seduction, lust, brokenness, and scenes that bare the soul (and sometimes the body).
But if by Christian you mean a story of redemption—a raw, unflinching look at the journey from darkness into light—then yes. Absolutely. For this is a book about grace.
But it doesn’t start in heaven.

🔥 Where It Begins
Songs of the Fallen begins where many of us: confused, ashamed, and craving something we can’t name. Alexandria isn’t a church girl. She’s an innocent searching [an angel]. She falls for the wrong men. She makes terrible choices. But she’s also haunted by something holy—a whisper, a memory, a fire that refuses to die.
She’s tempted by demons who wear beautiful faces.
She’s drawn to love that tastes like sin.
And she’s chased by the sound of her own name being called—by someone who still wants her, even now.
This book doesn’t present faith as a straight line.
It’s a cliff. A descent. A fire walk.
And then, slowly… a rising.

🩸 Why not?
Some will say: Why include the sex? Why not just focus on the redemption?
Because that’s not real life.
We don’t fall in church pews. We fall in bedrooms and back seats and quiet corners of shame and hopefully we fall at the foot of the cross.
We don’t heal by pretending we’re pure. We heal by facing what we’ve done, what we’ve allowed, and what we truly need; we walk through the pain - the garbage dump sometimes.
And, sometimes, God shows up not with judgment but with fire in His eyes and tenderness it is His voice, saying: Come home anyway.
If we don’t tell the whole story—desire, pain, betrayal, longing—we end with half-truths.
​And half-truths never set anyone free.

🌒 So, Is It Christian?
Let me be clear: Songs of the Fallen is not a sermon.
It’s not for everyone. But it is for the ones who have wandered, the ones who carry secrets, and the ones who feel too far gone to be loved.
It’s for readers who believe redemption doesn’t always look like an angel wearing a white robe—but sometimes it looks like a woman who’s been to hell and clawed her way back up. Or even a man.
It’s for anyone who’s ever wondered if they still matter. 
Spoiler alert: You do.
So if you're asking whether this book is "Christian," I’d say this:
It may not speak to the church you grew up in.
But it speaks to the God who never left you.
Want to experience it for yourself?
Read excerpt of Songs of the Fallen here and decide for yourself.

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