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Summary: Excellent ending
Review: By condensing the trials of the Tribulation into just a couple of books, it has a lot more impact. This set of books is a nice illustration of the book of Revelation without becoming tedious.In this last book, we finally see Christopher as the bad guy, and it's amazing just how bad he is. I could not believe what happened to Decker, our protagonist from the beginning. Wow! It's nice to see everyone reunited at the end after Jesus come to the rescue. Again, if you've read the book of Revelation these books shouldn't exactly surprise you, but it's always interesting to see the different spin different authors put on it.
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Summary: Great series finale
Review: I too was suprised at the outcomes in this book. It has a happy ending as it is based on the book of revelation. I even read the last half of the book twice. The mental imagery is very vivid while reading this book. Highly recommended.
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Summary: major disappointment
Review: Wow, do I feel sucker-punched!! I really enjoyed the first two novels in the Christ Clone trilogy about the rise of Christopher Goodman, cloned from cells found on the Shroud of Turin, as told by his friend and mentor Decker Hawthorne. What an awesome premise! Beauseigneur is a good writer and Decker is a fine narrative protagonist. The books were exciting and interesting, and by the end of the second novel I was really anxious to read the ending. What happened? SPOILER WARNING: Where there had been imagination, suddenly there is just a spouting of Revelations. I swear, there is a 53-page section that is just one character telling Decker stuff straight out of a Bible-thumper's visit to your front porch, and just as welcome. Suddenly, all the intelligence that we had seen from this author is replaced by Christian dogma. I had really hoped that this talented author would find a way, literarily at least, of reconciling the Good/Evil Christian/Everybody Else dilemma, or of saying "both views have problems and this is the reality", but instead we get straight dogma shoved down our throats. If you are a Christian who wants to read a narrative version of Revelations, this is for you. Anyone else, read the first two (very good) books and make up your own ending. You could not do any worse than Beauseigneur has done here. Very VERY disappointing.
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Summary: Complete Satisfaction
Review: Ahh what a wonderful trilogy. I was totally satisfied with the ending, and was amazed at how skillfully BeauSeigneur was able to lead me down one path, then totally change directions. I suppose if I knew my Bible better he would not have been able to do this, but since I dont I was lead through the trilogy and the ups and downs of the characters. I thought this was a great, fast and thought provoking read.
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Summary: Doesn't live up to the hype
Review: This is not a bad series, but I think perhaps I was going into it expecting too much. The reviews here have been so strong and so overwhelmingly positive that I was expecting a masterpiece. I didn't get it. The only two End Times novels I've ever read before this was Left Behind and We All Fall Down. This is certainly better than Left Behind (To be fair, I've only read the first one)but doesn't come anywhere near the quality of We all Fall Down. I baught all three books at one time and wished that I hadn't. This is a facinating premise, but that's all. There's no real exploration of Christian life and I certainly don't feel like I have a better understanding of my faith. This certainly didn't illuminate me or help me in that area. The characters are also fairly unengaging. Again, this is quite a bit better than Left Behind, but that's not really saying much. Perhaps if you read it with lowered expectations you will enjoy it more than I did.
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Summary: This is propoganda with a "false hook"
Review: I feel like i got cheated. The first two books were bearable but this third one undid any value in the first two. Unless you are a fundamentalist Christian (with a very narrow interpretation of the Bible) these are not for you. As one reviewer already noted, the characters are weak. Additionally, the end of this third book is a complete let down. Contrary to the reviews printed on the book jacket, there is little erudition and the author's interpretation of many of the referenced passages in the Bible are highly questionnable. This is not fiction, this is propoganda with a false hook.
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Summary: outranks LEFT BEHIND in imagination & literary quality!
Review: Granted that's not hard to do, but this truly is a spiritual thriller with seemingly outlanding interpretations of Bible prophecy that BeauSeigneur makes convincing with his writing style (a truly novel view of the Rapture that's really chilling). Also, the POV upsets the usual good guy/bad guy stereotypes that mar most End-Times novels.
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Summary: Tired rehash
Review: We've seen all this done many times before and far, far better. The writing is terribly amateurish and adolescent -- like an angst-filled teenager trying to wax intelligent. The storyline is predictable and tiresome (and derivative of many other works which are all inifinitely superior to this cliche). If you're into Hanger 51 and Roswell, you'll just love the ridiculous ending. A waste of good trees.
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Summary: An excellent reading experience!!!
Review: An excellent reading experience!!! Most Christian fiction works that I have read seem more interested in covertly proselytizing than telling a story. Not so with these books of The Christ Clone Trilogy. So well developed is Mr. BeauSeigneur's descriptive writing style that reading this book allows you to "live" it. A reader's imagination is powerful, and this author knows just how to stoke it to shift it into high gear. As I began this book, I was prepared for an alternative version of the Book of Revelation. But his abilities as a master architect kept the plot rolling at a very fast pace. His short vignettes throughout the story were effective and subtle in illustrating his points. I appreciated the cited references in the text and his scholarly approach. It was hard not to develop a relationship and feel camaraderie with Decker Hawthorne, a key player in the trilogy. Poor Decker...resourceful, optimistic, heroic, loyal, sensitive, and thoroughly duped. I am pleased to add this trilogy to my library and highly recommend the experience.
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Summary: A solid ending to a great series
Review: BeauSeigneur accomplishes a difficult task--ending this sophisticated, urgency-packed end times trilogy. Those familiar with Christian end-times fiction know how the book has to end. The author exposes evil, applauds righteousness, and mourns the multitudes who are deluded by the most ancient of enemies. While the author does better than most, in this genre, I found the first two books moved at a better pace than number three. This conclusion had slow spots, and occasionally was more obvious in exposing the author's viewpoints, than the previous two had been. In the end, I loved this series and hated to see it end. My sense is that the author felt the same way. I hope BeauSeigneur is discovered by the big publishing houses. Who knows, maybe he will do a similar series on the Tower of Babel?
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