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A review by raven_pine
The Lucifer Gospel by Paul Christopher
1.0
What on Earth did I just read!
For anyone hoping for a storyline similar to Angels and Demons by Dan Brown you will be sorely disappointed. Whilst this was also my hope going into it and clearly the intention of the author with government conspiracies, cover-ups and the Bible not being true, it badly missed the mark.
This book is a mess. The two main characters Finn and Hilts were repeatedly almost killed with assassination attempts which were left unexplained as to why they were attempted. They seemed to spend the entire book looking for 'Lucifer's gospel' and what this was, was never really explained. Their hunt saw them meeting up with random people that had the exact information they needed to point them in the right direction and they all listed a load of random names with no context which either ended up being referenced to later on or never spoken of again and with the lack of information given made the names easily forgotten.
There was also some issues with the authors writing style. When it got to an action scene the characters almost start to dissociate and it's like the action is occurring in a dream or being watched from far away leaving me very confused and having to reread it to try and figure out what actually happened. Also, Paul Christopher seemed to reference other popular books, movies and other such media in what I assume was an attempt to increase the reader's enjoyment of this book by making them associate it with better things (this is becoming a more frequent occurrence with many authors) but it just seemed to random especially when he is writing about The Da Vinci Code which he was clearly trying to mimic in the first place.
Sorry if this review is a bit of a rant but I had a lot of negative thoughts about this book.
Overall this seemed to be a boring and very confusing history lesson that was worthless in the end.
For anyone hoping for a storyline similar to Angels and Demons by Dan Brown you will be sorely disappointed. Whilst this was also my hope going into it and clearly the intention of the author with government conspiracies, cover-ups and the Bible not being true, it badly missed the mark.
This book is a mess. The two main characters Finn and Hilts were repeatedly almost killed with assassination attempts which were left unexplained as to why they were attempted. They seemed to spend the entire book looking for 'Lucifer's gospel' and what this was, was never really explained. Their hunt saw them meeting up with random people that had the exact information they needed to point them in the right direction and they all listed a load of random names with no context which either ended up being referenced to later on or never spoken of again and with the lack of information given made the names easily forgotten.
There was also some issues with the authors writing style. When it got to an action scene the characters almost start to dissociate and it's like the action is occurring in a dream or being watched from far away leaving me very confused and having to reread it to try and figure out what actually happened. Also, Paul Christopher seemed to reference other popular books, movies and other such media in what I assume was an attempt to increase the reader's enjoyment of this book by making them associate it with better things (this is becoming a more frequent occurrence with many authors) but it just seemed to random especially when he is writing about The Da Vinci Code which he was clearly trying to mimic in the first place.
Sorry if this review is a bit of a rant but I had a lot of negative thoughts about this book.
Overall this seemed to be a boring and very confusing history lesson that was worthless in the end.