Review: The aliens continue to direct the world's history.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
I received this book free to read and review.Another excellent science fiction book although you really need to read the first in the series firstOriginsas although the author makes a valiant attempt to bring the reader up to speed there is so much that needs explaining that it is easy to miss something unless you have read the first one.I thought this an engrossing novel which I read in one session, I was trapped in a garage waiting for a MOT and service. In this book the threads started in the previous book are coming together with the alien, there is still some doubt left as to whether he is an alien or a patient telling a psychiatrist his deluded story, by this time the reader knows he is an alien. The story progresses with the alien telling the psychiatrist how he and his crew have directed the course of human history mainly covering Roman history at the time of Julius Caesar through to the beginning of the rise of Christianity. The one thing about the book that I found slightly difficult to follow was that the aliens appeared as various historic characters and at times I wondered if it was the actual character or the alien. In fact it would have been a good historic and well researched novel had there been no science fiction aspects. Practically every historic figure of the era gets a mention with even appearances of Cleopatra and Jesus.I am still not sure where this is leading as when things are going wrong and everything seems to be lost the aliens strategic planning comes to the fore and everything falls into place.I am waiting for the next in the series and will certainly read it as I want to see how the current loose ends are tidied up.