World Without End

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Summary: Cochran and Murphy do it again!
Review: First of all, I loved this book. It was just as captivating as Forever King and The Broken Sword. I just couldn't put it down. I must admit it was a little slow at the begining but then it grabs you and doesn't let go. I really liked the way they tied in the figures from Greek myths and gave a creative explanation of where the legends of the greek gods may have came from. An interesting spin on things if nothing else. The guy that gave this book only 2 stars and didn't finish reading it doesn't know what he missed.I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves to read scifi/fantasy.

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Summary: I had shivers!!!!!! I honestly had shivers!!!!!!!
Review: I don't expect you to trust an online reviewer, but i thought that this book easily surpased many of the books i have ever read. It hooked you in from the very beginning, and gripped you until you finally put it down, finished. You wont want to put it down at all, but you'll feel a sort of emptiness when it ends. It is one long string of eye-opening connections between the characters and events, everything comes together in every possible sense. While i was reading it, I cried out, laughed, and made surprised sounds, truly worrying those around me. I developed a strong affinity for the characters, and truly felt as though i were there as well, involved in this enchanting story. The writing is vivid and true. You'll laugh, scream, cry, and most importantly, think. Congratulations to the authors, they have acquired a new fan. I'll have to read their other works now. I can almost guarantee that you will love it. While i was still reading it, I told this to my friend, and he picked it up if only to prove me wrong. He read the first chapter or so, and I literally had to wrestle it away from him. He's reading right now in fact. This is in no way propaganda, but READ THE BOOK.

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Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: I read the first two sentences and was hooked.It is filled with lots of twist and turns. I could not put it down. Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy are the best and this is another outstanding book. I highly recommend it to others.

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Summary: Their worst book yet.
Review: I read their 2 King Arthur books twice. I therefore consider myself a fan and have great expectations from these writers. Reading "World without end" was one of the worst letdowns I ever had. It seems to me so badly written and on such an amatuer level that I find it unbelievable that it was written by the same authors as "the broken sword" and "forever king". The naive use of elementary school greek mythology, the idiotic difficulties that always arise and are immediately resolved with no sophistication and no mystery. the pseudo psychological and actually hysterial efforts to make destiny and fate the prime movers of puppetlike characters are an insult without end to the intelligent reader. The authors should look deeply into their act and quickly return to their former level. If not, they certainly have lost me.

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Summary: This Book is for Alternative Thinkers
Review: If you believe in reincarnation, soul mates, ESP, psychic abilities, karma, and the mysteries of Atlantis, you will love this book. It is not for everyone, but certainly supports the alternative spirit.

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Summary: wonderfully entertaining
Review: there is no way to express how amazing this book is it is perfectly put together and i read it every other month its just incredible it puts anchient history and myths into sitiations giving the reader a better understanding of the sitation the charecters draw you in not letting you go its just utterly incredible

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Summary: Atlantis Sinks - Plotline Treads Water!
Review: This engaging enough Atlantis fantasy reads extremely well for the first half, bogs down badly in time-traveling/reincarnation problems for the remainder, and suffers from a weak deus ex machina ending.

Orphan Sam Smith has suffered from psychic phenomena his entire life, unsure how to interpret it and frequently thought crazy by those who witness it. Adopted by seaman Darian McCabe, Sam hears a siren's voice calling to him from the underwater reefs, and cannot resist it. He retrieves an oddly shaped diamond from the ocean bottom - and his life will never be the same.

A wealthy industrialist wants the diamond. He belongs to the Consortium, a group who tracks down psychics with Sam's unusual blood type and kills them. The Consortium knows that those like Sam are reincarnated Atlanteans, and fears their potential power should they ever come together. The Consortium heads are aware reincarnates, themselves - of those who were responsible for the original decline of the civilization of Atlantis.

Up to this point in the story, everything is quite gripping and exciting, but then Sam makes another dive, travels through a time portal, and ends up in Atlantis before its fall. His modern-day doctor, Cory Althorpe, is the reincarnation of the woman who was known as the goddess Athena, an Atlantean noblewoman whose voice was the siren call fetching Sam back. The two fall in love, endure some ugly adventures in the shifting Atlantean political base with Hades gaining ascendancy over Zeus and Poseidon, and escape to their separate destinies - which, of course, again intertwine, in the future - before Sam and the other Atlantean reincarnates in his own time gather, regroup, and dispatch their enemies with what might as well be a magic wand.

The first part of the novel reads like an action-adventure/spy thriller, and is very good. The second half reads like a soap opera, and is too clever for its own good - it delivers too many pat explanations for the gods, the origins of various Flood myths, and the like. The psychic-bloodline angle is quite interesting, but makes most of the past Atlantean plot fairly unbelievable - these "gods" would sooner (and better) have utilized their power, and if not, the explanation for why not is simply not apparent.

Not a bad read, just be aware what you're getting into before you start.

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Summary: Wow, couldn't stop reading this novel. . . . . .
Review: Try reading this one on the beach! You will get the shivers too. I loved the whole story line about Sam, the orphan who is taken in by the old sailer, Darian. You too will try and figure out the connection between them and the other characters they encounter. The suspense about the other Rememberers fates was gripping. I love the way the story ties into Atlantis, the Greek Gods and the state of the current world as it relates to the lost world of Atlantis.

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Summary: Wow, couldn't stop reading this novel. . . . . .
Review: Try reading this one on the beach! You will get the shivers too. I loved the whole story line about Sam, the orphan who is taken in by the old sailer, Darian. You too will try and figure out the connection between them and the other characters they encounter. The suspense about the other Rememberers fates was gripping. I love the way the story ties into Atlantis, the Greek Gods and the state of the current world as it relates to the lost world of Atlantis.