Review: Another Good Story, Terrible Ending
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2012
I have always love this author's work, greedily devouring each in one setting as soon as it is available. However, the ending of this work seemed to written by another author.God - After 10+ books, the author brings up God, and the USA failed because it turned away from God. Why not use the "Creative Force" set this is motion events to save humans for the upcoming battles of the future. May be that is what he meant, but it sound like a political talking point. I hear enough of that crap in the media.China/USA Debt - This is just flat out lazy writing. There is no such thing as China/USA debt. China buys treasury bonds just like everyone else in the world can. They might hold 10% of bonds at any given time. Most USA "debt" is held by USA citizens. USA bonds are so trustworthy that at times people pay the USA to hold their money in safety. Also, bonds are not a pay-on-demand, although selling the bonds off could cause problems. However, why would China seek to sabotage their best customers is beyond my understanding.President - I have live through many presidents and hated some of them, but never, ever think that one of them would betray the country in the fashion described in this book. Why would anyone won't to go from being the most powerful man in the world to some second-rate lackey? Sounds like left/right wing conspiracy BS about Bush/Obama. I think that using Treasury/Defense Secretary, or a military/industrial complex with military leadership conspiracy would have much more plausible. Maybe this was a hit a Romney due his extensive business ties to China, which is about plausible as turning over the country to Kenyan/Muslim control.Sorry for the rant. However, I am going to assume that Mr. Andrew just had problems shoehorning his story into real history (especially trying to get the ages right to have someone fight in Vietnam) for which I offer a scenario that may have work better.The "Creative force" use a renegade Glod to "enable" telepathy in humans setting up an alternate history which would have been much easier write with.I apologize one again, but I have heard enough BS political talking points this year, maybe making me overly sensitive to what was just some unusually poor writing from Mr. Andrew.