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Summary: Predictable and Boring!
Review: This was a poorly plotted novel with leaden dialogue and paper-thin character development. The storyline wasn't remotely plausible, and the ending was predictable.
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Summary: The superior version of this concept
Review: Daughter of God is a superior thriller that explores church secrets and really is amazing similar to the currently bestselling derivative book.
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Summary: Exciting and interesting!
Review: This book has information guaranteed to make you think unless your mind is totally closed. It has lots of action that keeps the interest high, and it has true facts about the history of religion that may offend some religious extremists. It is not anti-religion, but it just makes you think about what you believe and why. At the end of the book the author has a chapter that explains what was fact and what was fiction. The story was exciting and fun and I really enjoyed this book.
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Summary: WoW, WOW, & Double WOW
Review: If you want History, Adventure, Religion, and nasty little triangles that keep you reading well into the night then this is the book for you. I read it in one sitting. The Historical references on religion are exact and accurate. Running Gun battles, ladies in distress, religious scandle, second world war and present day illusions make this one of the best books I have read in years!
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Summary: Still another Papist intrigue
Review: DAUGHTER OF GOD is a potboiler, at the heart of which is yet another abominable cabal hatched by Vatican plotters headed by an ambitious and unscrupulous Cardinal. (Don't you ever wonder why the Church of England, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or even the Hare Krishnas, can't manage to be such busybodies in the world of fictional mischief-making?)Art historian Zoe Ridgefield and her ex-cop husband, Seth, stumble across hard evidence of a miracle-working female Messiah, Sophia, who lived in the first quarter of the 4th century. Sophia was ultimately killed on the order of the Emperor Constantine, who wished to keep his empire free of religious squabbles. Over the centuries, the Catholic Church, grounded in its belief of Jesus Christ as the one and only Messiah, suppressed knowledge of Sophia's existence for the same reason. Now, decades after the Nazis stumbled across the great secret and used it to blackmail Pius XII, the evidence is again up for grabs by Church zealots, the U.S. National Security Agency, and an unholy alliance comprised of the Russian Mafia and ex-KGB. (Our old Cold War nemesis never goes away in authors' fevered imaginations, it just diversifies.) DAUGHTER OF GOD is a fast-paced, moderately intelligent, and semi-taut thriller that has the Ridgeways escaping one hairy situation after another as they're pursued from Southern California to the Austrian Alps by assassins. In that regard, the plot is eminently predictable. However, as both Zoe and Seth are basically nice folks caught in a bad spot, the reader is unlikely to withhold sympathy. The ending holds a couple of character identity surprises, but they weren't so unusual as to cause me to exclaim, "Wow, way cool!" While I'm of the opinion that this book is marginally entertaining escapist entertainment, I also think, in the light of recent events in New York and Washington, that it's also rather silly. The Holy Mother Church and the Russian Mafia, the latter with or without assistance from KGB troglodytes, are the least of our worries. Maybe our literary fiction in this genre needs to grow up.
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Summary: (en)shroud
Review: Nice tight little read of a novel. Will raise some controversy if made into a movie. Just think, another shroud - a female. Nazi collectibles, Pope denouncement of the shroud. Touches into our belief of Judeo-Christianity/Catholicism religion. Gives an open conjecture(s) within novel storyline. Good interesting but not hard-to-read, page-turner. Intriguing religious mystery thriller. Minor flaw is the ending - a little bit 'floored' here. But is there a connection with Shroud of Sophia and the Shroud of Veronica (from another of Mr. Perdue's books)? Not a religious treatise or directed as such. May raise thoughts about male dominated religion.
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Summary: Try Mother of God! Help!
Review: Perdue's attempt at fiction is not very good. From the blurb one gets the impression that he knows what he's talking about but he can't make it work. Catchy title, poorly written.This kind of stuff is formula written but the menu is missing here.
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Summary: Intriguing
Review: This is a pretty heavy-duty book theologically speaking. While I don't believe there are any "second Messiahs," or third or fourth or fifth, I did like the thoughtful tone of this book, and I certainly learned some history along the way. It also confirmed to me my own belief that women should have "equal place" in the church and not be treated as having a lower status in the sight of God. This was a great thriller, too, by the way -- constant action and lots of drama. I recommend it to anyone whose faith is strong enough to handle it.
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Summary: heart and soul
Review: This book was a good summer read - it was exciting enough to be fun and smart enough to be interesting.
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Summary: Worthless
Review: Mr. perdue may be a good journalist but he certainly can't write a thriller. The plot has potential but the result is even worse than Ludlum. Which is funny, because Perdue actually ridicules Ludlum's books at one point. If you want to read about a catholic conspiracy, there are a lot of better books around. If you want to read an intelligent thriller about a female messiah, try Glenn Kleiers "The Last Day".
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