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Summary: Oh, the humanity!
Review: A literary underachievement on the grand scale of a parking ticket. This "Left Behind" knock-off features an utterly forgettable, two-dimensional, stereotypical cast. The story line is weak, unoriginal, and lacks even a modicum of cohesiveness. If it's multitudes of protagonists' convictions were half as strong as their agnostic meanderings and doubts, it might have mediocre potential. It lacks a sound message. This book has the potential to be a great witnessing tool, just start it on fire and tell people about Moses and the burning bush.Poorly conceived, and poorly executed.
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Summary: 3+ Stars for Above Average Effort
Review: Abraham's series joins a now crowded pack of apocalyptic novels. His approach is strong, and he offers an intriguing mix of suspense, action and characterization. The way he hints around about a "Prodigal Project," is clever. On the other hand, the vast array of character vignettes tends to slow down the pacing, and can be confusing after awhile. Ultimately, compared with Left Behind, it ranks about even--better at depth and mystery, slower at pacing and action sequence. Those who want the best of action and characterization-suspense-depth, might look to the Christ Clone Trilogy.
Bottom-line: Strong effort, above average results.
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Summary: Wasn't "Left Behind"
Review: By in large an EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT novel!! Although there are some similarities with the Left Behind series, this book is without a doubt much more superior in its characterization and writing style. From the beginning you're immediately pulled into the lives of each of the characters and you can't help but sense that the time they live in is all too real. In addditon, although this novel is about the end-times, its delves much deeper than that. It touches on the struggles of coming to true faith in God and the reality of what it means to be born-again. It doesn't use a lot of ambiguous terminology like "finding Jesus" or "getting save" but it focuses on describing the real experience of encountering the living God through Christ. I have no doubt that this series will not only change a lot people ideas about the last days but about what it really means to be a Chrisitian.
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Summary: Poorly executed, but interesting concept
Review: Creative writing teachers tell their students to begin their novel at the point when something changes. This book begins with a golfer feeling a mild earthquake, then goes on to introduce us to another half dozen people experiencing the same mild earthquake. The quake is worldwide, and since the book is about the rapture and beginning of the tribulation, the reader expects that the earthquake is the planet's reaction to the rapture. But no. The story skips from character to character. We meet the Muslim bad guy who either has a clone, is a demon, or can teleport himself (Izbeck Noir). We also meet a character who appears to be the Antichrist (Azul Dante). And we meet a character whose looks and name change each time he appears, but since his last name always means "night" (Nacht, Nuit), and since he always appears in time to offer one of the characters the deepest desire of their heart, it's pretty obvious that the character is evil. So we have potentially 3 "bad guys" so far (although "Night" and "Noir" will probably turn out to be the same personality/power). The exposition and backstories in the novel fill too many pages. Another rule of creative writing is "Show, don't tell." This book tells. We see the characters doing a lot of sitting and thinking, but not much talking or acting. The characters who suddenly come to believe in Jesus (within a very short time frame) do so without the reader ever seeing the person in any conflict or making any changes. Another reviewer asked how Ivy's husband Ron could be a believer if he wasn't raptured. Ron had a "head" belief in Jesus, but he never followed through with a "heart" belief - the committment to follow, the committment to the new life required of believers. I expect we'll see Ron come to that committment in the next book. I will probably read the next book in the series, simply because I hope it gets better. If the second book is as poorly written as the first, I'll stop.
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Summary: Save your money and time!
Review: For those of you who are looking for something to read while waiting for the next book in the Left Behind series.......this isn't it! It is very poorly written with none of the character development of the Left Behind books. The story was either boring or chaotic. I found myself having to reread pages thinking I had missed something. Someone else said this book was poorly edited. If this is the case, I would like to read the parts that were not included because they had to be a better read than the finished product. My conclusion is that the authors tried to ride the coat-tails of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. They failed miserably.
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Summary: The Prodigal Project: Genisis
Review: I am always excited to get a new christian novel and especially an end times but this book is so poorly written I find my self having to read pages two or three times just to make sense. I am all for this series but I think anyone getting into it should know the score. If you by any chance thought left behind was poorly written then just put this back on the shelf.
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Summary: Dull and Boring
Review: I couldn't stay awake because this book absolutely bored me to sleep. No excitement, no fun, no nothing. After all the hype I was so dissappointed, I can't stand spending money and getting nothing but a hodgepodge of, well, I still don't know exactly what. I completed the book, finally, after going to sleep on it three nights in a row (as thin as it was) and I wish I'd just gone to sleep in the first place. A total waste of time and money.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down
Review: I have read all of the poor reviews and can't help but wonder who is writing them. Didn't they read this book? I couldn't put it down. I carried it everywhere with me. I read the entire Left Behind series and became bored toward the end because I felt that the story line began to drag and the writing and character development was poor. Not so with this book. In order to understand the importance of this topic and storyline, extensive and needed character development has been achieved throughout the first half of the book. I was truly disturbed by what I read and the evil doings in the book. I was able to feel and visualize the evilness not just read about it. The scenes of war and devastation left me breathless. I look forward to reading the entire series and recommend it to anyone who has enjoyed the Left Behind or Christ Clone series and anyone else who may need enlightening.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down
Review: I have read all of the poor reviews and can't help but wonder who is writing them. Didn't they read this book? I couldn't put it down. I carried it everywhere with me. I read the entire Left Behind series and became bored toward the end because I felt that the story line began to drag and the writing and character development was poor. Not so with this book. In order to understand the importance of this topic and storyline, extensive and needed character development has been achieved throughout the first half of the book. I was truly disturbed by what I read and the evil doings in the book. I was able to feel and visualize the evilness not just read about it. The scenes of war and devastation left me breathless. I look forward to reading the entire series and recommend it to anyone who has enjoyed the Left Behind or Christ Clone series and anyone else who may need enlightening.
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Summary: Dull and Boring
Review: I have to admit to one and all. I rarely if ever like Christian fiction. I find most of Christian fiction to be poorly written and poorly devised. I did enjoy the Left Behind series at first, but when TL seemed to care nothing more than making money (as with the LB tshirts, the LB teddy bears, the LB coffee mugs, the LB gum, the LB life insurance ... etc etc etc.) I went away from the series. The Prodigal Project, on the other hand, is amazing. It is well written, the story is tight from one book to the next, and you have a passionate and realistic series of characters. I love how the story worked. It was very insightful, and I hate to say this, but it was like reading a Stephen King book w/o cursing and sex. It was just that good of a story, so now I am going to read the next book and I think I wont be disapointed. And neither should you.
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