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Summary: Dissapointing....
Review: I thought that I will love this book as I loved the Eight but I was in a mistake. This book is so difficult and to boring in some parts that I tried to re read many pages of some chapters to make sense to me the story.I don't reccomend this book.
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Summary: TOO MUCH!!!
Review: I have read "The Eight" and I was expecting a thriller or a book that I wouldn't be able to put down. This book was very hard to read. Too many characters, I couldn't keep straight who was who!
Too much narrative of historical facts mixed with myths, legends, conjecture, preaching...HELP... I was LOST! I kept thinking the story would get better and was thouroughly disappointed! Not worth your time to read. Like other reviews this story was hard to swallow. And her love affair with the handsome Wolfgang was TOOOO Much! A good word for this book: CHAOS! If you want to read it, I'll gladly give you my book!
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Summary: ONE STAR IS WAAAY TOO MUCH!
Review: The eight was an overhyped success. This one though takes the cake of unsuccesful followthroughs!Maybe too late to go back to modeling but why keep pretending to be a writer? I don't object so much Neville's abuse of history as her condesending attitude, as if her readers will shallow everything.She not only exhaustes her ingeniouty on family-tree .."twists", she manages to realy get on your nerves having to resort to outdated sacrosanct ideas about the training of Jesus by ...druids!! Where did you do your research Cathy, Asterix village? Pass.
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Summary: disjointed and chaotic
Review: I picked up this book because I had loved Neville's 'The Eight' so much. Sheesh, I wish I had not bothered. What a silly mishmash of loose ends that never get tied together. You keep *thinking* it's going to all come together in the end somehow, but it never does. A complete waste of time.
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Summary: Deeply Unsatisfying
Review: I am shocked that this book has an overall 4 star rating (currently) .. I almost feel that this is some kind of conspiracy. Honestly, it is the worst book I've read in a while. Like most, I agree this book begins with promise and tantalizes us with myth, far away cultures, and ancient history. You stay with each new pile of information, story twist, and genealogical relevation as you trust the author has put it there for some reason. But, it builds and builds, builds and builds, builds and builds, builds and builds ...... You get the idea. She makes you work hard to stay with her through this wild goose chase and then she slaps on a deeply unsatisfying ending. Ironically, I think the book is generally well-paced and well-written with the fingers-on-chalkboard exceptions of romantic interludes, which read like harlequin novels. I understand her other novels are much better though I'm now hesitant to give them a go.
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Summary: Please put me out of my misery
Review: Wow. That's all I can say about this book. Each page offers an increasingly compelling reason to stop reading this book. What starts as a possible interesting plot quickly devolves into ridiculous behavior and an even more ridiculous storyline. To give you a hint, when Jesus and then Hitler were both introduced into the storyline, even that was not enough to put this book over the top. There was more. After also reading The Eight, I think I could also write a book for Neville where ridiculous connections are made through history. Each character then hears these stupid connections and acts as if they have had an epiphany, now understanding how everything is interconnected. I am surprised her books have not woven in a cockroach into some historical scenario and then connected it with the invention of the lightbulb (which then, of course, is connected to the design of a Dodge Viper in Neville's version of the world). Ridiculous, silly and a waste of time are the nicest ways to describe the experience.
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Summary: Yummy!
Review: What a trip! This books ties together everything from Jesus to Hitler to the dawning of the age of aquarius! As Jesus and his followers sought and gained control of the age of pisces that begain around 2000 years ago, people are now seeking to control the next age, the age of aquarius. I just loved this story!
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Summary: Hitler, Jesus...Pandora's Box
Review: This book is very intricate and ties the past with the present creating a full scale mystery. Some things she ties together in this book are: Hitler, Pandora's box, and Jesus! What's great about Katherine Neville is that she is an amazing researcher.Her mysteries are based off factual events and myths from the past. She has marvelous talent as writer. She keeps you guessing until the very end.
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Summary: Reading this book takes a lot of effort
Review: Let me say this first. I love to read. I'll read anything, no matter how complicated, no matter how long. But, folks, I gotta say-- I just about threw in the towel on this one. It starts out in one direction, turns a corner into another direction, then again changes course. On and on till I am wondering if it's all a bad dream. This is not a book you can lay down for a couple of days, then pick it up again, without a lot of review work. You'll find yourself flipping pages to check and double check what went before because of the plot twists. Also, there are numerous "stories" within the main story, and they are much too detailed and become tedious. The author knows her stuff, she obviously has done tons of research, but this is definitely a book for people who want to learn a lot of history, and have a lot of patience. I am glad I read it, but frankly, I'm pretty exhausted.
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Summary: A mess, all on its own
Review: Some people seem to think that the poor reviews of this book result from comparison with Neville's best and best known book, "The Eight." Sadly, this book fails entirely on its own. It starts promisingly, but soon devolves into a tangled mess that would need extensive charts to keep track of. Go read Neville's other two books, which are solid, fun reads dealing with the same interweavings of history, and avoid this frustrating, tangled heap.
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