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Summary: A fantastic high-tech thriller
Review: This is a very well-written thriller that combines an excellent plot, very good writing, an a high-tech scientific angle that is very reminiscent of Michael Crichton. I was extremely impressed by this book and highly recommend it. Case is a winner.
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Summary: Major dud
Review: This book started out well and good and certainly kept me turning the pages. However, it soon became very predictable and boring. I agree with the other reviewer who said there were too many convenient situations and outcomes. I didn't really care about the characters and it was painfully obvious the two lead characters would become romantically involved (no surprise there). This was a HUGE waste of time. There were also too many elements that went unanswered. For example, we never found out WHY Susannah stayed even after the boxing match. What kind of woman/mother would have stayed with a lunatic like that? There was absolutely no insight into her behavior -- now that would have helped to have made the story more believable and yes, even more entertaining.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I thought this book was great! Written well, good plot, great characters...what more do you want? It was fast and hearty! Loved it!
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Summary: Nothing new but it's still enjoyable
Review: The author executed a fairly standard thriller well. Not a bad read for a long plane flight.
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Summary: Not worth the time
Review: A great premise that turned into a boring story. Everything seemed to just move along too conveniently and many things were just too far fetched. The dialog was lame and many times pointless, the characters were mostly window dressings and the story left out any feelings of suspense. To top it off, the ending leaves you staring at the back cover wondering why you wasted your time. Leave The First Horseman on the store shelf and pick up the Genesis Code instead.
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Summary: intesting premise but...
Review: I read the Gensis Code and while I had an easy time figuring it out, I belived it. This book however I did not belive. It seems like the major reason Case picks the disease he picks in this book is because no one else has used it. He even states at one point that it would be eaiser for the villians in this book to use a virus like Ebola, so why don't they.I gave the book two stars because I think he makes intersting use of apocolypitic legend. Also some of his charcters aren't bad but they pale by comparision to the ones he created in The Gensis Code.
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Summary: Definatly not as good as "The Genesis Code"
Review: I was rather dissappointed in this book. This novel was just a little too confusing for me. There were topics that were addressed and then later dismissed as if the reader were to have already known what went on. The prologue was a definate attention grabber but the book seemed to go down hill from there. I have to admit that there were some crucial high points that did keep me reading but all in all I found it to be a big let down.
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Summary: Great premise, great development, fails at the end
Review: I looked forward to this book after reading the Genesis Code. I loved the book's premise and the historical information it provided. The characters initially reacted intelligently to their respective situations, but the book fell apart at the end with intelligent people doing incredibly stupid things. The book is worth reading for the 90% that I thought was quite exciting and good, but it went from an excellent thriller to a silly adventure story.
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Summary: Promising start goes awry - conclusion spins out of control
Review: Mr. Case grabs you at the beginning with the prologue and wins your rapt attention. However, as the story proceeds, more and more bizarre and illogical events start to corrupt the believability of the whole story. Frank Daly, the hero of the book, begins to make decisions and jump into actions that don't jive with his character as a smart, savvy individual and this really detracts from the ending. As I got toward the end of the book, I realized that Case was gonna have to wrap up his little tale with a flurry of action because there were several loose ends and not many pages left. Unfortunately, the conclusion was sadly predictable and maybe Case realized that, which is why he seems to speed through it, giving only perfunctory gestures towards original storytelling. I think that the last couple of chapters could have been replaced by a footnote saying, "See Die Hard".
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Summary: Good book until the end
Review: The reason this book avoided receiving two stars instead of three is because the middle, meaty part of the book is very good. The First Horseman starts off kind of slowly, and it takes a little while and alot of effort to get into the groove. It does pick up, however, and is good until the very end. I cannot tell you how it ends, but I will say that it is little more than a let down.
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