Review: Thought Provoking & Intelligently Written Masterpiece
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2014
Blooded: (Anunnaki Rising) The Booded Saga by Lyn MurrayOK…. Wow! Where do I start with reviewing this book. First I have to state that this book is an intellectually written masterpiece that had me constantly guessing. I give it 5 of 5 STARS! I never truly had a grasp of what exactly was going on, and honestly that is what I grew to love about this novel! This is so very different than any other paranormal, vampire type story that I have read and that is what blew me away. I will state, it took me the first 20% of the book…… to really be able to grasp the authors writing style, but once I did…. I could not put it down! This is a fabulously written Paranormal, Horror type novel! LOVED IT! The authors writing style reminds me of The Passage by Justin Cronin and that was another novel that had my head spinning, but in a VERY good way! Loved this book and I cannot believe I have not heard of this one sooner! I cannot wait for a sequel, because the way this fabulous novel leaves off…. It scream a sequel! I need to know what happens with Steve Cross, Katherine, Ryan, and Carl’s characters! I grew to really love them all ….. from the scary “bromance” between Steve and Ryan’s characters to my love of Katherine and even Carl. I really love the way Lynn managed to make me feel as if I knew these four main characters thoroughly! I cannot go into too much detail for fear of giving too much away, but here are two of my favorite excerpts from the book…. When things started to click for me anyway  :This excerpt is after Ryan is attacked by Steve and during that time he sees past visions to explain what is possibly going on with the overall plot of the story……he details his visions to Katherine and Carl (The doctors responsible for looking after Steve’s character at the beginning)…..Ryan settles back into a more relaxed posture, and continued, “In the beginning, there was nothing, not even time. However, eventually, from within the nothing, there grew a void. It was vast! It isn’t clear to me, the difference between nothingness and the void, but one exists, and when it occurred, it created a vacuum. By its inception was the first spark of energy realized. It’s what Steve is. What God is! Pure energy! Time, as we know it – began then.Eons past, when the energy divided, in its division, it became aware: awareness that created need, and need a longing. Longing that became desire….that eventually, was life.”Silence had fallen over the room during Ryan’s revelation, a silence that was as easy to read in the faces of those who had been listening, as was the calendar on Katherine’s desk. A seemingly endless silence, until it was shattered with a word greater than silence itself.“God?”Knowing what Carl meant, Ryan said, “you could call him a god. In fact, we have many times throughout our history! He is immortal like God, from the same place, and of the same composition; but, unlike God, he lacks the power of creation, true creation in that he cannot create life where none existed. Only The Source, The Ultimate Creator has that power of creation. Steve and his kind can replicate or alter what already exists, like scientists, creating life in a test tube. They cannot create “the life force”. They can create through transformation, (create beings by rearranging DNA); they can transform themselves into whatever suits them; and can make others into beings like themselves. Steve is the King of his kind, but an outcast among immortals because he corrupted ‘the seed of creation’, and was cast out and left to wander through time – an immortal nomad, living in the shadows of life, between the Heavens, the Universes…..between the Hells, while his following awaited ‘the awakening’ to reconnect….and they draw near!And this is another excerpt where Ryan is speaking to Katherine and Carl……Again Ryan struggled to reason the unreasonable: “There are many Universes beyond our own, and all of them were created by ‘The Source” – the one true God. Imagine each Universe is a marble and the marbles are in a fishbowl, and all are contained within a great hall of fishbowls.”“And, between…?” Cal asked“Are the immortals; but through the passage of so much time – I’m talking eons, they began to think and act as Gods. In the beginning, the very beginning, there was a plan for life to evolve (throughout the Universe and beyond), but through the passage of time, the immortals, who were supposed to assist the development of life, strayed from the plan of creation, corrupting the plan, causing The Source, The Ultimate Creator, to come here in a human form – as His son – to set the record straight, get us back on track and following Him, to lead us away from the lies and deceptions of the immortal imposters who had set themselves up to be worshipped as The Creator!”Like I said, extremely amazing concept, very different and very thought provoking as well! Check this one out! I again stress that I am giving this one 5 of 5 stars and for good reason ~ Check it out and you will see for your self! Lovers of Vampire, Paranormal, Horror genres....….read this one for sure. It is unlike anything you will have read before, I promise! The sequel cannot come soon enough for me.