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In His Image (The Christ Clone Trilogy, Book 1)

In His Image (The Christ Clone Trilogy, Book 1)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: loved it
Review: These books were awesome! So much better than the Left Behind books (which I've also read). The author is a Christian who is writing to bring in a more secular audience than say the LB books might. In the LB books, it's been said they are "preaching to the choir". In this selection, there is more guessing in who the bad guy is and what is going to happen (if you haven't read or heard about the Revelation prophecies that is). In this aspect, the author did a great job! Also, I believe Christopher (who seems like a nice guy and swayed people to his side) was more believable as the anti-Christ than Carpathia who is oozing evil the entire time. Well, that is my opinion anyway. Yes, he was VERY detailed, more than some people wanted I'm sure but he's so good at telling the little things! Also, yes he had you going one way with your thinking and then turns it around in the end (which we already knew if you believe what is supposed to happen in the end times) but for a non-believer, this might put them on the edge of their seat. wondering how it will end, etc... Anyway, when I read a review this wasn't exactly "like the end times" well I think he follows the steps in Rev. like other authors have done. This one just did a better job of making it more real for us. or to myself and those that I've discussed these books with. great books, I read them all in a week, they will get detailed in places but give them a try!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Not for the Faint of Heart
Review: This series was a phenomenal read. You have to read it for yourself. Judging from other customer reviews you'll either love it or hate it, but most like me seem to love it. The guy is a genius. The tale is intricately woven with many loose ends tied up at the last possible moment. The level of detail is astounding as I found myself learning stuff about astronomy, the New Age movement, politics, and history to name just a few levels on which these books excel. Best of all, it's realistic! It seems to have been written from a secular vantage point describing supernatural events as an unbelieving world might describe them. Whatever doctrinal objections you may have with the author, don't let that stop you from enjoying one of the best fictional series of all time.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not for me
Review: What Mr. James BeauSeigneur needed desperately when he finished writing this book was an editor. It pains me to think that there are two more unedited installments out there just like this one. I am embarrassed for him.

The subject matter, at first glance, is intriguing but the writing is so poor that I was unable to get passed page 185. Mr. BeauSeigneur committed an author's cardinal sin and that was that he bored his reader.

I was incapable of connecting with any of the characters - or rather I was unable to find any characters at all. They were stick figures that stated emotions that Mr. BeauSeigneur never showed to the reader. I had a hard time caring about anyone much less his main pseudo person, Decker Hawthorne. I do not find it surprising that Mr. BeauSeigneur's credits include successfully writing technical manuals. There are no people in technical manuals.

The author's lapses into the didactic, " . . . okay now I'm going to teach you some history," was tiresome. A good editor would have cut the superfluous dead wood and recommended that he weave the tedious stuff into the plot.

As for the use of boldface, he needs to consult a punctuation book to discover the use of Italics. The front pages of any good dictionary are very informative. The point is anything that takes the reader's mind out of the story is inappropriate and the boldface, besides being incorrect, was intrusive.

My recommendation is, don't buy this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Starts as fascinating premise, just keeps getting better!
Review: It's hard to imagine how Mr. BeauSeigneur could go any further than a story about cloning Jesus from live cells found on the Shroud of Turin. But as if that's not earth-shaking enough, this premise is only the tip of the plot iceberg! For below the surface there lurks intrigue, destruction of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, the mysterious "Disaster" that takes 15-20% of the world's population, Arab-Israeli religious war, conspiracy and nuclear destruction in Northern Asia, political deceit in the United Nations, the clone's reluctant rise to power, and war between India and Pakistan. And all of it is neatly and tightly held together. This is the kind of story line folks like Tom Clancy or Stephen King can only wish for. BeauSeigneur is a wonderous storyteller and this is an A+ plot.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Engrossing and Masterful
Review: An engrossing blend of politics, religion, New Age, end-of-the-world prophecy, and science, James BeauSeigneur's In His Image keeps readers turning pages. His masterful plotting weaves an international cast of characters through world-changing events (including the cloning of Jesus and two nuclear holocausts) that are made entirely believable because of BeauSeigneur's meticulous research and eyewitness-quality detail.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best I've ever read
Review: A masterful job! Something for everyone. And the author has really set us up for a shocker in Book 3!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pure Genius!!!
Review: I wish I could write great reviews because the Christ Clone Trilogy deserves far better than I'm capable of writing. I could not put these books down! Just as the story begins to mellow you are shocked time and time again! James BeauSeigneur is a genius!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I stand in complete awe!
Review: Superbly structured, marvelous manipulation of time constraints, artisitic delivery of each and every paragraph! I stand in complete awe, at the wonder of this series! It was great, I recommend it to ALL!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Read The Omen
Review: Let's not write another Omen. This is another unoriginal cheat sheet disguised as a book. This one is extremely bad. If your going to copy at least be original and interesting when doing it. I have read alot of rehashed stuff that works if it's written well. This isn't.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Unoriginal
Review: This is a zerox of the "left behind" books. And for that matter of every other doom and gloom end of the world book. Except the difference between those and this is that this one is badly written. It has a ton of editing mistakes. I can't believe the publisher let them slip. But when I say it's badly written I'm not talking about poor grammar. I'm talking about a horribly mismatched story that is that disappoints. The dialogue is horrible. Kind of like the dialogue in "Attack of The Clones". Ugh. I struggled through this baby hoping it would get better and getting ever more disappointed. I don't think this author should quit his day job. I don't recommend it.


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