Rating: Summary: Archangel Pretty Dull! Review: Nothing much happens in this futuristic cyber society. Cyber angels stalk the LINK (a futuristic version of the internet) while real angels inhabit human bodies and skulk around in pseudo-spy fashion. It captured my interest at first, but quickly went nowhere. I'm a bit disapointed because angels should make for a great subject in fiction but so far no one had been able to hit a high mark. The writing is good, the characters are interesting...I just wanted some plot. This had great potential but never reached the heights.
Rating: Summary: Like "Left Behind" for Unitarians... Review: Okay, comparing it to "Left Behind" is a little unfair, as "Archangel Protocol" is way, WAY better written. But for those who enjoy unusual takes on religious ideas, this book rocks. The angels in this novel would not make good models for dewey-eyed Precious Moments figurines...to put it mildly. The story is told with a biting sense of humor; the heroine is tough, funny, and engaging. Read it; this book is well worth your time.
Rating: Summary: Needed more editing Review: This book rates a five for concept, a one for integration. The writing is about average, so everything works out to a three. Morehouse has some very interesting ideas, but the book reads like a second or third draft, where various bits have been added to make the plot flow, or make better sense, but haven't been very well integrated yet. For instance, the disjunction between the heroine's continual doubts about what is going on and the author's rather heavy-handed foreshadowing/intimation becomes tiresome. Little riffs on human enhancement, apparently to make the angels appear more human and therefore support the heroine's doubts, read like afterthoughts. All in all, interesting, almost worth a read, and certainly worth a more careful edit. And just a note to the number one reviewer--it is a Medusa bomb, not a Plasma bomb.
Rating: Summary: Great Read! Review: This was a great read! Very fast paced. I would definitely recommend this book to a friend.The world that Ms. Morehouse has created is so vivid you feel like you could step right in. What's scary is that we're not that far away from a "LINKED" world like the one in Archangel Protocol. This book is going onto my "keeper" shelve. Great job Ms. Morehouse, I can't wait to read your next book.
Rating: Summary: I love it! Review: While not my favorite book in the series, it's a great starting point. It gets even better as it goes on!
Lyda's concepts, like the LINK, are wonderful. The cyber culture is interesting, as it has to exist in such a religious world. It's a futuristic setting, but it manages to reamin realistic, like maybe this could happen one day. The characters are great. The characteristics of the four archangels contrast nicely with each other: an Italian cop, an African biotech, a Israeli terrorist, and a Chinese-American transvestite.
All religions are given equal treatment, more or less. Lyda's not hard on Christianity, though it is given more attention, but these books are about the end of days according to the Bible.
Another great thing about these books is the accessability of the author. If a reader emails her a question, she will answer them back.
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