Birth of an Age (Book Two of The Christ Clone Trilogy)

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Summary: Revelation Redux Again, Too
Review: Well, this is a step up from the first book. Here are some of the problems:
The first book, when finished, read like little more than a preface to this one. The writer spent most of his time filling in bits and pieces from his version of revelation, without ever actually giving credit where credit is due, so that the reader would be shocked at how well the whole thing comes together at the end?... and the writer could convert a few naysayers? Or is it- so the writer could prevent valid criticism by claiming it's all the word of god?
The first book was nearly 500 pages (too) long of preliminary material. Now that the writer has got the ball rolling, we suddenly find this volume nearly 150 pages shorter, and over 40 of those (351) pages are without a doubt filler- the writer includes not only the last pages from the first book, but also the starting pages from his next (over 10% of this book is solid filler!).
[I suspect what we have here is really three 300 page books, that should have been released as two 450 page books, but was marketed as three books, overlong, repeating pages, using revelation as filler to hide a weak story and even weaker characters. all to make money. Oh, well.]
The writer does open a can of worms by showing how evil religion is, but it's obviously just window dressing for the slow-witted (Don't forget that NO ONE in the first book recognized the"Rapture!" The author paints a heavy brush of stupidity on all non-superstitious -read non-christian- people.) I suspect GOD will be restored to his glory in the end.
Like I say, this IS better than the first, more action, faster plotting... I just wish a true writer had tackled the subject.
I keep imagining this writer sucking down whiskey out of a dirty glass thinking, "Hey, I know how to screw those suckers outa their money!"