Reviews for Green Eyes in the Amazon

The average rating for Green Eyes in the Amazon based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-09-06 00:00:00 Kelly Joyce I truly wanted to like this book. The premise was very intriguing, religion versus science with a new species being created and evolving along with the human race. However due to the redundancy of dialog, the lack of character development and general over long length of the book I did not enjoy it. It was like a homework assignment that I kept procrastinating about completing. It took me along time to get through it because of these flaws. I think that if a good editor with a more flowing style could get a hold of this book there would be major improvements. The first half of the story, and especially the farm scene is totally unnecessary, it could have been edited down to a comfortable level of just a few explanatory paragraphs. The characters lacked depth, nobody really had a personality that shone - even the 'child' Julia who was supposed to be the new specie was dull. I am disappointed, it could have been a really interesting story with such a unique and original premise. Maybe a rewrite is in order?

Review # 2 was written on 2009-11-24 00:00:00 Brigette Mcnew I found this book a bit confusing at times- it's a sequel to Fischer's "Julia and the Dream Maker". But while I never quite figured out *how* the situation that the book opens with came about, the author fills the reader in enough that one never feels completely lost. Set in the not too distant future, most religions have banded together against technology. Dr. Steven Sumpter has used technology to do something that they consider abominable: created a fetus that is partly human.. and partly something beyond human. This baby, called Julia, is growing in the womb of Sumpter's longtime girlfriend, Eli. She is on the run. He is in prison. They have only Sumpter's father and his best friend as allies. Somehow, they must get together and get to safety so Julia can be born. But that isn't the only problem: someone is attacking the US military's quantum computers, and will soon disable all the defense systems in the US if Steven can't stop them... and the armies of religion are on the move. A pall of danger and hopelessness hangs over the novel. Peril comes from every direction; there is never a time to catch one's breath. The author gets the reader caught up in this pace, sweeping them along straight through to the end. The characters don't fair quite as well as the pacing; Sumpter and Eli are a little too good to be true, but I found myself caring about them. Sumpter's father, Dennis, is ever resourceful and strong, providing lasers, portable labs that can synthesize DNA, and enough firearms and explosives to destroy a small country. He's sort of like the hero on a weekly action TV series, always finding a way out of the situation. Only the best friend, Bennie, seems truly human in scale. Bennie has physical weaknesses, Bennie gets scared. Bennie can get regular people to like and open up to him. The plotting is a little scattered at times, although it holds together most of the time. I never did figure out what the hell was up with the ancient Egyptian memories, but that might have been explained in the first book. I'd give this one a 3-1/2 out of 5 stars- I enjoyed it and was absorbed in it, but Fischer needs some work on character.