Review: pretty entertaining read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2013
I got this for free recently in the Kindle edition and started reading it.It has a lot of good elements to it.A several millennia struggle between good and evil.A long conspiracy involving the Catholic church and shadowy organizations both in and out of the church.Some good action and believable history, although I cannot vouch for the history.The writing is well done and unlike most self published stuff is not full of writing mistakes and badly in need of an editor.It also has some really goofy stuff that takes away from the book IMO.The story line is quite believable and enjoyable until near the end when it gets both preachy and metaphysical. What had been a more or less straight forward conspiracy story that while pretty far fetched, became something completely at odds with the very believable story line that preceded it (strange visions and such). While there was bits and pieces of this kind of thing earlier on, it was limited and it just made the woman who is the main focus of the story a little odd.A short quote towards the end of the book will illustrate the strange direction it turned after being a credible conspiracy novel for most of the book."Our planet is reacting, Steve, to pollution, to the destruction of species and soil, overfishing, all the things we've been hearing about the last two or three decades. And we will all disappear if we don't act to change the future."This just came out out of nowhere and made little sense to the story line.The author had a shot at a really good book, maybe even a great one and put this nonsense in instead.Didn't like the part where it boiled down to some kind of ancient drug that gives the power of prophecy. Just was not believable.I still enjoyed the book even with the very disappointing ending. It would have been a very solid 4 star book with a better ending. With the goofy ending, it is a lower end 4 star book, but still a four star book.