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A review by mattaukamp
Tribulation Force by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye
1.0
This book, like the first one, was just garbage.
This book was better than the first one in terms of pure excitement, even if most of the building anticipation led to really disappointing denouement. The Eli/Moshe stuff was fairly cool sci-fi and I enjoyed the dynamic perspective switching... But this book was wildly Anti-Semitic. Not just in terms of trivializing the entire Jewish religion (which is theologically unavoidable in a fundamentalist Christian narrative like this one,) but in it's horribly stereotypical depictions of Jewish people. Frankly, both in the writing and the voice work, the depiction of Jewish characters are disgusting and borderline-hateful. The writers' grasp on politics and media are still child-like. The female characters are still super broadly drawn and they still exist only to inspire or frustrate the male characters, rather than having any agency themselves. The weird "comedy of errors" romance plot would have been thrown out of the Three's Company writers' room for being too absurd and pointless. And this volume is even preachier and less self-aware than the last.
This book was better than the first one in terms of pure excitement, even if most of the building anticipation led to really disappointing denouement. The Eli/Moshe stuff was fairly cool sci-fi and I enjoyed the dynamic perspective switching... But this book was wildly Anti-Semitic. Not just in terms of trivializing the entire Jewish religion (which is theologically unavoidable in a fundamentalist Christian narrative like this one,) but in it's horribly stereotypical depictions of Jewish people. Frankly, both in the writing and the voice work, the depiction of Jewish characters are disgusting and borderline-hateful. The writers' grasp on politics and media are still child-like. The female characters are still super broadly drawn and they still exist only to inspire or frustrate the male characters, rather than having any agency themselves. The weird "comedy of errors" romance plot would have been thrown out of the Three's Company writers' room for being too absurd and pointless. And this volume is even preachier and less self-aware than the last.