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greensin's review against another edition
5.0
Loved the book, only thing that annoyed me was just how gullible Dom is when she's going through therapy.
drako1357's review against another edition
3.0
La resurrección maya es la segunda parte de la trilogía maya del autor estadounidense Steve Alten. La historia continúa donde lo dejó el primer libro, El testamento maya, con Michael Gabriel desaparecido y su esposa, Sarah, embarazada de gemelos.
Los gemelos, Dylan y Seth, nacen con habilidades físicas y mentales extraordinarias. Sarah pronto se da cuenta de que sus hijos son los gemelos heroicos profetizados en el Popol Vuh, el libro sagrado de los mayas. Estos gemelos están destinados a enfrentarse a los señores del inframundo y salvar el mundo.
Mientras tanto, Michael Gabriel sigue desaparecido. Un grupo de científicos descubre que ha sido secuestrado por los mayas, que lo están utilizando para resucitar a los antiguos dioses mayas.
La resurrección maya es una novela de acción y aventuras que combina elementos de ciencia ficción, terror y mitología. El libro está lleno de giros y vueltas inesperados, y el ritmo es vertiginoso.
La trama es un buen ejemplo de cómo la ciencia ficción y el terror pueden combinarse para crear una historia emocionante, aunque algunas de las situaciones son un poco exageradas.
Los gemelos, Dylan y Seth, nacen con habilidades físicas y mentales extraordinarias. Sarah pronto se da cuenta de que sus hijos son los gemelos heroicos profetizados en el Popol Vuh, el libro sagrado de los mayas. Estos gemelos están destinados a enfrentarse a los señores del inframundo y salvar el mundo.
Mientras tanto, Michael Gabriel sigue desaparecido. Un grupo de científicos descubre que ha sido secuestrado por los mayas, que lo están utilizando para resucitar a los antiguos dioses mayas.
La resurrección maya es una novela de acción y aventuras que combina elementos de ciencia ficción, terror y mitología. El libro está lleno de giros y vueltas inesperados, y el ritmo es vertiginoso.
La trama es un buen ejemplo de cómo la ciencia ficción y el terror pueden combinarse para crear una historia emocionante, aunque algunas de las situaciones son un poco exageradas.
tandemjon's review against another edition
2.0
Predictable, fun in places but much too much let's all bow down to the great Americans. Probably won't bother with book 3
adamantium's review against another edition
1.0
30% stupid fun, 30% boring, 40% sexist garbage. Featuring a sexualized abused schizophrenic 14-year-old girl antichrist, Mayan legend, Bible code, ghosts, wormholes, time loops, Future Drugs, whales, and this passage from a boy to his mother:
Then the fog lifted, and I saw the Abomination for what she really was. "She was part-human, part-demonic creature. Her skin had bleached ghostly white, her long hair was black and knotty. The corneas of her eyes were violet-red, her pupils like a viper. But it was her mouth that made my soul retch—a vertical slit, like a fleshy trap—like a vagina, Mother, only it was filled with hundreds of these sickening stubbly black teeth....though I had no nose, I could still smell the putrid scent of demon's vomit, and though I had no mouth, my tortured mind screamed over and over as the Abomination entwined her naked limbs deeper around my mind, and ground her rancid groin into my being... I was drowning in her sulfuric maelstrom..."
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Then the fog lifted, and I saw the Abomination for what she really was. "She was part-human, part-demonic creature. Her skin had bleached ghostly white, her long hair was black and knotty. The corneas of her eyes were violet-red, her pupils like a viper. But it was her mouth that made my soul retch—a vertical slit, like a fleshy trap—like a vagina, Mother, only it was filled with hundreds of these sickening stubbly black teeth....though I had no nose, I could still smell the putrid scent of demon's vomit, and though I had no mouth, my tortured mind screamed over and over as the Abomination entwined her naked limbs deeper around my mind, and ground her rancid groin into my being... I was drowning in her sulfuric maelstrom..."
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bherrera's review against another edition
4.0
Pretty good, but not as good as the first. Did meander in the middle a bit but picked up in the end. Overall decent read and I will pick up the third in the trilogy. Nice little end of the world/Mayan 2012 myth with a twist in the end
kristenlopez8's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this book. I'm a fan of Alten's after reading Meg but this seemed like a combination of sci-fi and a religious text. At times I was confused if he was trying to get the Left Behind group or not because it delved deeply into God and Satan at the last minute. There was also a lot of big space and time terms that never really got translated for the layman. The story moves incredibly fast and it's scary that this was written in 2004 and a lot of stuff has come true like the emphasis on a black President and such. I didn't know this was part of a series, it's actually the second, but I never felt lost. Overall a really well-done book and I'm interested in reading the other two in the series.
buildhergender's review against another edition
2.0
Finishing Domain I started this book off with great expectations. I mean if you read carefully you realized that this was always meant to have a part two. And while not excellent the first book was competent and entertaining so I was ready.
Spoilers
I was not ready....Okay so remember how in the last book took pains in showing how Aliens who looked like old white men created civilization and all that? Well turns out they were not Aliens. They were literally old white men...but from the future.
Characters
Dominique Vazquez: She had sex with Mick one time, and got pregnant. Due to the ancient legend she knows her kids are going to be the future saviors of humanity. Takes Karata goes into hiding and teaches her kids. Look at this point she is a low budget Sarah Conner from terminator.
Jacob: Neo from the Matrix. That's all I can say to describe him. He is born as one of twins and it appears as if he was stilling from his siblings umbilical. He is born muscular like waking in two days gets stronger as he grows is able to enter bullet time when he gets older...oh wait they call it the source so it's totally not the bullet time from the matrix. He spends all his life getting ready for his 23rd birthday when he knows that there will be a test for him and his brother. When the test comes he passes/fails I don't know you read this flipping book...I have and it's sequel and I still don't know if he won or lost.
Immanuel: A normal kid. Resents being forced into hiding. Spends most of the book learning, pouting then pretending like he is dead so he can hide. Which he does by finally becoming the most famous College Football star of all time. Oh he also learns a bit how to use the source.
Lilith: Another kid born on the same day as Jacob and Immanuel. She is also a genetic heir to the alien/not alien DNA that was introduced by the old white men time travelers. Look do not read this book if the idea of a girl being abused is upsetting. She spends a good deal of time in this book graphically being beaten sexually abused and then using her sexuality to be evil. (Another one of Steven Alten's great women characters.)
Pepper and Salt: Two former secret service men/FBI agents? They are part of the presidential protection team who eventually get assigned to protect the Gabriel family.
So in the last book the prophesy was that the One "Huitzilopochtli" or Mayan Jesus as he is also called at one point is supposed to save the world in 2012. Then he is supposed to fight the source of evil. However he will be tricked by two demons and decapitated. He would then have his head put on a tree and 23 years later his kids would come and avenge him and then resuce him.
Knowing all this Mick went into the portal to fight the source of evil and defeated the two demons. Yet somehow he still ended up in the Mayan hell, i.e the future, and is killed/not killed.
His sons grow up knowing what is expected of the. Yet despite all the videos and historical accounts of what happened in 2012 Immanuel doesn't believe it's true.
I should note he is not alone. In 2016 a rich man turns into an evangelical and runs for president, seriously this writer predicted Trump. He thinks that 2012 was a hoax to disarm America and bring along a one world government. He repeatedly tries to have the kids killed. Reading this I was so ready to see what this villain could do...oh wait he was assassinated by Salt and Pepper a chapter after being introduced.
Meanwhile the twins grow up one getting strong and possibly crazy the other getting whiny. Lilith is also starting to grow and has meet up with Jacob in the Source. She falls in love with him, He with her. But he then realizes she was born on his birthday and thus is prophesied to be the evil he must fight. He dumps her over the Source, it's like dumping someone over twitter. She gets mad and turns evil.
Immanuel dies in a car wreck and we get introduced to the new villain. It's Pierre Robert Borgia. He has been in prison for years over the attempted murder of Mick and is now out and ready to get revenge. He is financed by the son of the now dead Totally not Trump and his first step is to kill the Former President...oh and it's totally not because the president was black...totally. I was excited he was a great bad guy in the last book...oh and now he's dead.
Yes again a chapter after being re-introduced to the series he is killed. But he also manages to kill Jacob. Thus all of humanity's saviors are dead and the real evil, Lilith, is still alive.
Part 3 of the book. (Yes this book had 3 freaking parts and as weird and unusual the first parts were I was longing for them half way through this part.)
A few years later and it's the 23rd birthday of the twins. And shock to anyone who has never seen a movie with a plot twist the twins are still alive. Immanual has become a super football/basketball/A++++ college student. He has also gained access to the source which he uses to help his football career. However, in the last incident, while in the source he is disturbed by a woman asking him who he is? He still wins the game but doesn't use the source for the rest of it causing there to be a uproar in the legal gambling scene as he doesn't beat the point spread. (BTW betting on college football is now legal and the students get paid.) Since his performance for the rest of the game is way under average he is accused of throwing it for a paycheck. There is also a subplot introduced where we meet his girlfriend, he loves her but has to go for an interview with a sexy ESPN interviewer, and jealousy abounds. Well it would if this plot lasted more than a chapter.
He find's himself picked up in a limo by his mother. She takes him to a secret base where we find his brother...dum dum dum...alive, oh wait anyone reading this already guessed that. His brother has continued his training, well as much as he can without using the source. During his training he has been talking to his father who is in the future and dead/not dead or maybe in a bathtub flying in space. (Hey if you have a better explanation please let me know)
His father while, I'm going to go with sleeping, has been experiencing a past/future life. Look I know this doesn't make sense. But he is experiencing the life of someone who was born after him, but because Mick is traveling in space in time it is totally possible that he was now in the future and looking at a past life. OHH AND IT GETS EVEN MORE FUCKING CONFUSING. The life he experiencing is a man who is on a space shuttle from Mars, one of the last of 12 to leave the planet earth before it dies. However it and the other 12 shuttles are hit by a worm hole and end up on an abandoned planet with future technology. We later find out that this is Earth in the future. So at this point he might just be in Mick's future who is now in the future of Jacob while he is living the life of a man born after Jacob but may now be in the future. Are we all clear?
Oh and we find out that Lilith and her son are on one of the 12 shuttles. While they they establish a godhood cult and basically kill Mick. But we also learn that they were the demons who tried to confuse Mick when he entered in the worm hole so now his future version of himself has been killed by people he killed thousands of years in the past.
HONESTLY I AM TRYING TO MAKE THIS MAKE SENSE.
Jacob, with some spiritual help from Mick, help to clarify everything to Immanual. Earth is stuck on a time loop and is repeating the same events over and over. People from the future came back to the past to warn about how to save the world. However their warnings got written down as legends. Jacob and Immanual have done this rescue of their father countless times before always failing. Jacob can remember them and has built a hollideck simulation but can not beat it. It's time for Immanuel to step up and help. And Immanuel decides to be a man and step up and by that I mean he says no I want to be with my girlfriend. He leaves the ship and Jacob decides to take his mother to the future. We go to watch Immanuel and his girlfriend have a happy long life of 30 seconds before she gets killed.
Aboard the good ship Baalam Jacob and his mother land and meet some of the remaining people of the 12 shuttles. They call forth a dragon, that looks exactly like the one that attacked in 2012. We find out that these dragons are actually genetically modified whales who can open worm hole. Together mother and son climb into the mouth of the dragon/whale and go to fight Lilith and her son and almost all that is left of humanity.
Lilith's followers are they rest of the people from the 12 space ships and used to live on a giant floating city that had water in it that turned them into super freaky super people with brain powers. Oh and by the way Lilith's son is also Jacob's son. He had sex with her despite knowing that her child would become the devil because he is a genetic super hero and she is a genetic super hero and apparently superhero hormones are strong. The son being a child of two genetic super heroes and also having drunk the super hero water is a super hero to the 3rd or is it 4th power. He has the ability to change himself and makes himself into a giant albino angel/dragon.
Lillith and her son convince their followers to leave the sky city, aka heaven, and go down to earth, aka hell. And this earth has no oxygen no growing things and the only thing that nourishes them is an old tree with glowing orbs. Most of these now super intelligent enhanced humans can see what a wonderful idea this is and they do it. Then over the years they are tortured and changed by Lilith and son to become hideous semi human monsters.
Jacob and Mother have some adventures and by that I mean they walk, get lost, walk some more, get more lost and then separated. Jacob comes upon an albino angel dragon raping a woman. When trying to rescue her he finds out that the woman is actually Lilith. And not from the way it was written he was not just pretending to have sex with his mother.
Jacob gets caught and brought to the tree with the glowing orbs. We find out that Lilith controls the tree and feeds the orbs to her followers. They in turn worship her and her son as gods.
Meanwhile Dominique finds her way to where Jacob is being held. A fight breaks out, Jacob kills both Dominique and her son but is fatally wounded. We find out that the tree was actually Mick, that Lilith, her son and all the followers are actually dead and just spirits or energy or I don't know I stopped caring. And as he dies Jacob somehow cleans Lilith's soul.
Dominique and Mick return back through the dragon/whale's mouth, thankfully it was a two way portal and they didn't have to go through the other end. The aliens put Mick in a virtual reality program and explain to Dominique that he was in the tree for thousands of years being tortured by Lilith and that he was the source of the glowing orbs. He needs to recover and they offer to link her up to his mind so she can help him gain his sanity back. She agrees and is also put in a coma. The wise white men then set their ship to travel back to the beginning of the space loop where they can once again set up the world to survive the 2012 apocalypse, but this time their ship goes off course and most of it explodes leaving a small fraction orbiting Mars. The fraction a couple of million years later gets called Phobos and is falsely identified as a moon of Mars. Inside Mick and Dominique are still connected in a still functioning VR system alive and having freaky mind sex.
I really wish I was making this up but no this is the story the best as I understood it.
Spoilers
I was not ready....Okay so remember how in the last book took pains in showing how Aliens who looked like old white men created civilization and all that? Well turns out they were not Aliens. They were literally old white men...but from the future.
Characters
Dominique Vazquez: She had sex with Mick one time, and got pregnant. Due to the ancient legend she knows her kids are going to be the future saviors of humanity. Takes Karata goes into hiding and teaches her kids. Look at this point she is a low budget Sarah Conner from terminator.
Jacob: Neo from the Matrix. That's all I can say to describe him. He is born as one of twins and it appears as if he was stilling from his siblings umbilical. He is born muscular like waking in two days gets stronger as he grows is able to enter bullet time when he gets older...oh wait they call it the source so it's totally not the bullet time from the matrix. He spends all his life getting ready for his 23rd birthday when he knows that there will be a test for him and his brother. When the test comes he passes/fails I don't know you read this flipping book...I have and it's sequel and I still don't know if he won or lost.
Immanuel: A normal kid. Resents being forced into hiding. Spends most of the book learning, pouting then pretending like he is dead so he can hide. Which he does by finally becoming the most famous College Football star of all time. Oh he also learns a bit how to use the source.
Lilith: Another kid born on the same day as Jacob and Immanuel. She is also a genetic heir to the alien/not alien DNA that was introduced by the old white men time travelers. Look do not read this book if the idea of a girl being abused is upsetting. She spends a good deal of time in this book graphically being beaten sexually abused and then using her sexuality to be evil. (Another one of Steven Alten's great women characters.)
Pepper and Salt: Two former secret service men/FBI agents? They are part of the presidential protection team who eventually get assigned to protect the Gabriel family.
So in the last book the prophesy was that the One "Huitzilopochtli" or Mayan Jesus as he is also called at one point is supposed to save the world in 2012. Then he is supposed to fight the source of evil. However he will be tricked by two demons and decapitated. He would then have his head put on a tree and 23 years later his kids would come and avenge him and then resuce him.
Knowing all this Mick went into the portal to fight the source of evil and defeated the two demons. Yet somehow he still ended up in the Mayan hell, i.e the future, and is killed/not killed.
His sons grow up knowing what is expected of the. Yet despite all the videos and historical accounts of what happened in 2012 Immanuel doesn't believe it's true.
I should note he is not alone. In 2016 a rich man turns into an evangelical and runs for president, seriously this writer predicted Trump. He thinks that 2012 was a hoax to disarm America and bring along a one world government. He repeatedly tries to have the kids killed. Reading this I was so ready to see what this villain could do...oh wait he was assassinated by Salt and Pepper a chapter after being introduced.
Meanwhile the twins grow up one getting strong and possibly crazy the other getting whiny. Lilith is also starting to grow and has meet up with Jacob in the Source. She falls in love with him, He with her. But he then realizes she was born on his birthday and thus is prophesied to be the evil he must fight. He dumps her over the Source, it's like dumping someone over twitter. She gets mad and turns evil.
Immanuel dies in a car wreck and we get introduced to the new villain. It's Pierre Robert Borgia. He has been in prison for years over the attempted murder of Mick and is now out and ready to get revenge. He is financed by the son of the now dead Totally not Trump and his first step is to kill the Former President...oh and it's totally not because the president was black...totally. I was excited he was a great bad guy in the last book...oh and now he's dead.
Yes again a chapter after being re-introduced to the series he is killed. But he also manages to kill Jacob. Thus all of humanity's saviors are dead and the real evil, Lilith, is still alive.
Part 3 of the book. (Yes this book had 3 freaking parts and as weird and unusual the first parts were I was longing for them half way through this part.)
A few years later and it's the 23rd birthday of the twins. And shock to anyone who has never seen a movie with a plot twist the twins are still alive. Immanual has become a super football/basketball/A++++ college student. He has also gained access to the source which he uses to help his football career. However, in the last incident, while in the source he is disturbed by a woman asking him who he is? He still wins the game but doesn't use the source for the rest of it causing there to be a uproar in the legal gambling scene as he doesn't beat the point spread. (BTW betting on college football is now legal and the students get paid.) Since his performance for the rest of the game is way under average he is accused of throwing it for a paycheck. There is also a subplot introduced where we meet his girlfriend, he loves her but has to go for an interview with a sexy ESPN interviewer, and jealousy abounds. Well it would if this plot lasted more than a chapter.
He find's himself picked up in a limo by his mother. She takes him to a secret base where we find his brother...dum dum dum...alive, oh wait anyone reading this already guessed that. His brother has continued his training, well as much as he can without using the source. During his training he has been talking to his father who is in the future and dead/not dead or maybe in a bathtub flying in space. (Hey if you have a better explanation please let me know)
His father while, I'm going to go with sleeping, has been experiencing a past/future life. Look I know this doesn't make sense. But he is experiencing the life of someone who was born after him, but because Mick is traveling in space in time it is totally possible that he was now in the future and looking at a past life. OHH AND IT GETS EVEN MORE FUCKING CONFUSING. The life he experiencing is a man who is on a space shuttle from Mars, one of the last of 12 to leave the planet earth before it dies. However it and the other 12 shuttles are hit by a worm hole and end up on an abandoned planet with future technology. We later find out that this is Earth in the future. So at this point he might just be in Mick's future who is now in the future of Jacob while he is living the life of a man born after Jacob but may now be in the future. Are we all clear?
Oh and we find out that Lilith and her son are on one of the 12 shuttles. While they they establish a godhood cult and basically kill Mick. But we also learn that they were the demons who tried to confuse Mick when he entered in the worm hole so now his future version of himself has been killed by people he killed thousands of years in the past.
HONESTLY I AM TRYING TO MAKE THIS MAKE SENSE.
Jacob, with some spiritual help from Mick, help to clarify everything to Immanual. Earth is stuck on a time loop and is repeating the same events over and over. People from the future came back to the past to warn about how to save the world. However their warnings got written down as legends. Jacob and Immanual have done this rescue of their father countless times before always failing. Jacob can remember them and has built a hollideck simulation but can not beat it. It's time for Immanuel to step up and help. And Immanuel decides to be a man and step up and by that I mean he says no I want to be with my girlfriend. He leaves the ship and Jacob decides to take his mother to the future. We go to watch Immanuel and his girlfriend have a happy long life of 30 seconds before she gets killed.
Aboard the good ship Baalam Jacob and his mother land and meet some of the remaining people of the 12 shuttles. They call forth a dragon, that looks exactly like the one that attacked in 2012. We find out that these dragons are actually genetically modified whales who can open worm hole. Together mother and son climb into the mouth of the dragon/whale and go to fight Lilith and her son and almost all that is left of humanity.
Lilith's followers are they rest of the people from the 12 space ships and used to live on a giant floating city that had water in it that turned them into super freaky super people with brain powers. Oh and by the way Lilith's son is also Jacob's son. He had sex with her despite knowing that her child would become the devil because he is a genetic super hero and she is a genetic super hero and apparently superhero hormones are strong. The son being a child of two genetic super heroes and also having drunk the super hero water is a super hero to the 3rd or is it 4th power. He has the ability to change himself and makes himself into a giant albino angel/dragon.
Lillith and her son convince their followers to leave the sky city, aka heaven, and go down to earth, aka hell. And this earth has no oxygen no growing things and the only thing that nourishes them is an old tree with glowing orbs. Most of these now super intelligent enhanced humans can see what a wonderful idea this is and they do it. Then over the years they are tortured and changed by Lilith and son to become hideous semi human monsters.
Jacob and Mother have some adventures and by that I mean they walk, get lost, walk some more, get more lost and then separated. Jacob comes upon an albino angel dragon raping a woman. When trying to rescue her he finds out that the woman is actually Lilith. And not from the way it was written he was not just pretending to have sex with his mother.
Jacob gets caught and brought to the tree with the glowing orbs. We find out that Lilith controls the tree and feeds the orbs to her followers. They in turn worship her and her son as gods.
Meanwhile Dominique finds her way to where Jacob is being held. A fight breaks out, Jacob kills both Dominique and her son but is fatally wounded. We find out that the tree was actually Mick, that Lilith, her son and all the followers are actually dead and just spirits or energy or I don't know I stopped caring. And as he dies Jacob somehow cleans Lilith's soul.
Dominique and Mick return back through the dragon/whale's mouth, thankfully it was a two way portal and they didn't have to go through the other end. The aliens put Mick in a virtual reality program and explain to Dominique that he was in the tree for thousands of years being tortured by Lilith and that he was the source of the glowing orbs. He needs to recover and they offer to link her up to his mind so she can help him gain his sanity back. She agrees and is also put in a coma. The wise white men then set their ship to travel back to the beginning of the space loop where they can once again set up the world to survive the 2012 apocalypse, but this time their ship goes off course and most of it explodes leaving a small fraction orbiting Mars. The fraction a couple of million years later gets called Phobos and is falsely identified as a moon of Mars. Inside Mick and Dominique are still connected in a still functioning VR system alive and having freaky mind sex.
I really wish I was making this up but no this is the story the best as I understood it.
si0bhan's review against another edition
1.0
So the first book was a decent read. It wasn’t one of my favourite books but it kept me interested for the most part. As someone who does not like giving up halfway through series I forced myself to work through this one.
Honestly, it was much harder to get through than the first.
I’ll start with my dislike of one of the storylines. Enter Lilith, the typical story for how someone comes into their role as a bad guy (well, technically bad girl). Was it really necessary to pick that storyline for her to come into her role? It wasn’t just that it has been done a hundred times before and has lost all of the shock it could have, but it was just generally badly done. I’ve always disliked that kind of storyline for the ‘evil’ females but in this case I disliked it even more than usual – worse still is the fact that I cannot pinpoint what part in particular knocked me over the edge into complete hatred of her story. Whilst she is an interesting character her entire backstory drove me insane.
Speaking of backstories, I feel as though things were over intellectualised on the twin front as they were growing up. Yes they’re meant to be smart, I get that, but at times I felt as though the conversational routes that adults had with them were too much. No matter how smart your kid happens to be you’re not going to sit exchanging some of the conversations that occurred at the start of this book.
Most of my dislike, however, is limited to the first few parts of the book. I thought that the first book in the series could have been cut down by a couple of hundred pages but it is nothing compared to how this one could have (and probably should have) been cut down – with most of it being at the start. Again, sadly, most of the action seemed to be limited to the end.
Really this should be a one and a half star review, but as I’m not feeling generous (it really did take me far too much effort to work through this book) and it has been brought down to a one. Whilst lots of things were explained and brought about I couldn't bring myself to get over everything that annoyed me, let us just hope that the last book is an improvement…
Honestly, it was much harder to get through than the first.
I’ll start with my dislike of one of the storylines. Enter Lilith, the typical story for how someone comes into their role as a bad guy (well, technically bad girl). Was it really necessary to pick that storyline for her to come into her role? It wasn’t just that it has been done a hundred times before and has lost all of the shock it could have, but it was just generally badly done. I’ve always disliked that kind of storyline for the ‘evil’ females but in this case I disliked it even more than usual – worse still is the fact that I cannot pinpoint what part in particular knocked me over the edge into complete hatred of her story. Whilst she is an interesting character her entire backstory drove me insane.
Speaking of backstories, I feel as though things were over intellectualised on the twin front as they were growing up. Yes they’re meant to be smart, I get that, but at times I felt as though the conversational routes that adults had with them were too much. No matter how smart your kid happens to be you’re not going to sit exchanging some of the conversations that occurred at the start of this book.
Most of my dislike, however, is limited to the first few parts of the book. I thought that the first book in the series could have been cut down by a couple of hundred pages but it is nothing compared to how this one could have (and probably should have) been cut down – with most of it being at the start. Again, sadly, most of the action seemed to be limited to the end.
Really this should be a one and a half star review, but as I’m not feeling generous (it really did take me far too much effort to work through this book) and it has been brought down to a one. Whilst lots of things were explained and brought about I couldn't bring myself to get over everything that annoyed me, let us just hope that the last book is an improvement…
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