Review: A Book for People who Love History
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
While I found this book fascinating in some aspects… as learning about ancient cultures and beliefs… even scientific theories on how it all worked and grew… I found that getting what was basically a history lesson one chapter after the next began to really bog down the story… even how every character that popped up suddenly dumped their whole life history on you… there must just be something about Greg because most people I meet don’t think it necessary to tell you everything they’ve ever done or thought about doing the moment they see you… which just added more obstacles to drag the story down… for the most part it really only seemed like Greg’s background was all that important… and that the rest could’ve been just a gradual learning in conversations… and that was another thing… instead of showing conversations it seemed more often than not Greg would just think back on what had happened and give you a summary… then there would be just a little action in the current happenings of Greg and Eleni trying to find the abducted Doctor and discover the research that the evil people are after… but you would get just the barest glimpse of the real story and then you would get another history lesson… it got to the point that I felt like I needed to start taking notes to even remember what all was being thrown at me… and once more though it was interesting and even mostly useful for the book… just constantly having people go on long speeches about history for several pages isn't as exciting as one might think it would be…