Reviews for Genesis Secret

The average rating for Genesis Secret based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-07-21 00:00:00 Linda Easter If you're looking for a book about a guy who agonizes over leaving his family as he trips about the world getting into trouble and picking up minor clues, friends, and a hot woman at archeological digs, punctuated by unbelievably squicky torture-murder scenes and interference from the usual protector/authorities, revealing essentially nothing until an Agatha Christie/Dan Brown-like 10-page monologue in the next to the last chapter explaining the entire mystery with some incredibly wild leaps in logic surrounding very key points, with no hope of ever proving it since most of the evidence has been destroyed, and ending with a happy-ending coda (minus those poor tortured souls) that, considering the narrator has just blown the entire world's belief systems apart at the seams and supplanted them with a morbid inevitability regarding our leadership, seems disengenuous at best, then, great, you will love The Genesis Secret. I would have given it 1 star, but I gave it an extra star for creative murders. * WHY is it obvious that because of the skulls/history, the Yezedi worship a peacock? Why would they worship anything, since only they know the truth? * The significance of the jarred sacrifices in the desert is not really revealed. * It is highly unlikely that people would just allow all the evidence to wash away and not send divers after it. I mean, really. We are all to suffer in ignorance now because of the superstitious beliefs of the Yezedi? * All these genius archeologists couldn't put the picture together, but a journalist could? * If she's such a great archeologist, why on earth wouldn't she have documented the dig SOMEHOW and also not just cracked open a very ancient jar, already knowing what was in there? And really, the stuff was just, what, a foot down? And they just happened to randomly find the right spot in a mile area with no other equipment? * So, if only we had resisted breeding with the superhumans, we would all be living in harmony with slightly dim but peaceful leaders? And the best part of all: Only a man would write a book in which the male protagonist sends his gorgeous and brilliant blonde French girlfriend home to meet his ex-wife alone and have the ex-wife love her instantaneously, trust her with her only child, and then not go on a murderous rampage when the girlfriend escapes alive while the child remains in danger, which she was in, thanks to the girlfriend. HAHAHAHAHA. Right.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-27 00:00:00 Christopher Rooney Terrible!!!! Can I please, please, please have those hours back? The only reason I finished this book was remembering what Stephen King said in his book, On Writing, that you can learn more about writing from bad books than good books sometimes and I wanted to be able to think about why it was so bad. And it was baaaaaaaaaaaad. Really wish I hadn't finished it because it was gruesome, grisly, and gratuitously horrifying! Things that went wrong: 1) Neutral to unlikable main character. Seems like an idiot. Doesn't put his family first. Has little personality. He's a generic journalist. Yawn-fest. 2) Sagging middle of the book. Got boring and had to push through. 3) Characters making leaps of logic and connection that made absolutely no sense in order to advance the plot. 4) REALLY, REALLY awful torture/murder scenes that will leave you feeling yucky. I never want to be in the POV of the person being tortured and murdered. And if I was, at least make it realistic to the amount of pain they'd be in. Trust me, you'll feel sick and sorry for having read some of these scenes. 5) Speaking of unrealistic-this author must not have kids. He is SOOOO clueless about how people with children would really act. His ex-wife would NOT be happy his very new girlfriend showed up on his doorstep and wants to spend time with their daughter. She would be angry and protective of her daughter, not become chums with her. His daughter doesn't act right. He doesn't act in a very fatherly way and doesn't seem to put his daughter first. 6) Speaking of unrealistic part 2-one of the characters isn't traumatized by the end of the book. How could this be???? Unrealistic part 3-why does the character Christine even fall for the main character? She's too smart for him and he's not very redeeming! 7) The main character NEVER does anything to save himself. In fact, by being an idiot, he endangered everyone else. He doesn't figure things out, he doesn't act like a hero. He just stumbles around stupidly putting himself into dangerous situations and always and I mean every single time, getting saved by someone else. The police, a Kurd, his girlfriend, the police again, etc. Arggghhhh! He is good at checking his email and staring at his phone. 8) Lame, lame, lame "secret" at the end which is given to us in a massive info dump. Page after page of text in quotations (who talks like that?) with the main character monologue-ing. And monologueing to the person who actually saves him. Oooo, you figured out the puzzle dude. Who cares? The action/climactic scene is over. The puzzle was stupid and the other guy had to save you. Unless you want to analyze the ways that books go wrong, (and I think I hit most of them here already for this book) do yourself a favor and RUN away from this book. I agree with another reviewer. Pick up a James Rollins book if you want fun action/adventure.