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Summary: Christian Fiction?
Review: I think this book is well written. It has kept my interest, and even though I am not completely finished, I feel there is enough information to give a solid review.
The highlights of the book are its storyline, characters, and writing style. The part of the book which I find the most disturbing is the use of profanity. If it were not for that, I would rate the book higher. If this is supposed to be a Christian book, then I think the author is not doing a great job telling a good story that is different from secular fiction. He is just using a Christian theme. Anyone can do that. It takes a creative person to work around using unnecessary language.
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Summary: Doesn't live up to the billing
Review: I found these books disappointing. I read the first one in its entirety and thought it rather amateurish in style, although there were a few good moments (and I did like the Shroud of Turin aspect and storyline, just not the way it was developed.) I skimmed the second volume, but couldn't finish it and will not read the third. The two I read were very simplistic, I feel, and predictable, following the old, standard, fundamentalist Christian line. That's my honest appraisal for what it's worth to anyone considering risking money on these books.
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Summary: Amazing once you get by the first book....
Review: Don't get me wrong, I thought the first book was well written and pretty interesting, but once I finished I was kind of sick. I thought the author was going in a very new age direction, totally opposed to a Christian message. I even put the series down and didn't read anymore because I thought the message was skewed. On a whim, I picked up the second book. Once it hit me what BeauSeigneur was doing, all I could think was "Boy am I stupid" and "Brilliant!". From that point forward, I couldn't put the books down. They were absolutely fabulous. Well written, interesting and fast paced.If you are reading this as a Christian and you get frustrated with the first book....keep going. Trust me. You will not be disappointed. The same idea that trapped me also got my father in-law. Have fun.
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Summary: Not Left Behind
Review: I just finished "In His Image" and found it both interesting and disturbing. I am a big fan of the Left Behind series, having read all the books, seen the movie and studied Tim LeHaye's reference material. A warning to anyone who reads the Christ Clone books....do not expect any similarity to Left Behind, except in the extensive biblical research. There is so much more international politics and "new age" rhetoric. Sometimes the stories of the characters seemed to get lost and the profanity, although mild, was out of place. The story reads more like a mystery novel, which made it more interesting to me. Overall,it was a thought-provoking book, enough so that I will probably read the other two books in the series.
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Summary: Good series...kinda disappointing
Review: There was a lot of hype, but the series didn't live up to it. It's good, don't get me wrong, but it's all just so...typical. The books do some great debating about beliefs, presenting both sides of the argument, but in the end it's still the same message. If you're not a Christian, you're going to Hell. Looks like there's still no hope for unbelievers in the literary world. Sigh. Read Matthew Reilly books. They're cool. By the way, vampires are cool too. That is all.
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Summary: Superior Telling Of The Apocalypse
Review: Like many people I've been reading the Left Behind series and while the authors intentions are noble, the story and writing are elementary.After reading reviews where so many people had recommended the Christ Clone Trilogy as a superior alternative, I felt I had to at least try the first book to compare.
I don't know that there is a comparison. For me this book stands head and shoulders over any of the Left Behind books.
BeauSeigneur has such a well researched book on his hands, it reads like part sci-fi, part political thriller. And it feels believable. One of the things I loved about the book is that through three quarters of it you really don't know who's good or who's bad. The Left Behind books have such cardboard stock characters there's never any surprises.It also feels very focused. The Left Behind books are on their ninth installment, and it's dragged out narrative has readers losing interest. By making his story complete is three books, BeauSeigner makes every second count, creating a taut tension filled narrative with characters you want to see what will happen to, and a Biblical prophecy brought to life in Tom Clancy/Stephen King dimensions.
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Summary: Book 1 of 3
Review: When my grandmother first introduced me to the left behind series, I was ecstatic. However that series is constantly declining in quality. When I decided to give this series a chance I didn't know what to expect. It is now my personal belief that this trilogy far outshines anything else on the market to date! It makes the Left Behind Series seem like science fiction with its attention to reality. By the books! Forget left behind, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Best End Times Fiction
Review: As the first book in a trilogy, "In His Image" sets the stage for the two books that follow. An intriguing plot, and well-developed characters combined with pain-staking research combine to make this perhapse the finest End-Times novel. This book (as do the others in the trilogy) reads like a mystery, a techno-thriller, and a science fiction novel all rolled into one. I'd give it five stars except for the mild profanity. You'll probably want to think twice before using the Christ Clone Trilogy in a Bible study.
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Summary: A First Class Apocalyptic Techno-Thriller
Review: I found each of the books of the Christ Clone Trilogy to be thoroughly absorbing and entertaining. Some may be a little intimidated by the depth at which BeauSeigneur deals with his topic, but I for one appreciate his attention to detail. For me, it makes the entire story all the more believable and gripping.
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Summary: At Last: A Believable End Times Tale!
Review: I have been interested in prophecy since I was a kid, which was a very very long time ago. Over the years I've read and reread the biblical books of Revelation, Daniel, Ezekiel, etc., but I always came away just scratching my head. I've read numerous fiction and non-fiction interpretations of the end times but it's been pretty obvious in most of those books that the authors were as confused as I was. What BeauSeigneur has done with the Christ Clone Trilogy is nothing short of remarkable. It is so well written, so well developed, and so well researched that there is hardly any need to suspend disbelief. I couldn't help but feel that I was actually there, experiencing each of the prophetic events and circumstances. I highly recommend these books.
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