Maze Master by Kathleen O'Neal GearMy rating: 5 of 10 🌟
Pages : 352
Year : 2018
Genre : Thriller
So what is my opinion of this novel? First of all, it's fast pace. We've got 60+ chapters in 330 pages.
So what's this about you ask, well it's aboutcovid plague being ravaging the world. IT's a disease like no others before, since it seems it kills and there is no cure. The reason behind? Well it's due to genetics since this disease is at ADN (DNA) level.
So, we learn that this started somewhere in France and the vast majority of countries start closing on themselves but as any other disease it jumps to every country around and none can contain it. Wars and bombs go off and so on..
So who do we have here, well we have two characters that started this; Anna Asher & Martin. Afterwards they meet us military Micah. This novel deals with a disease , plague whatever you wanna call it and Anna thinks, or knows, that the solution lay in Egypt with the cure that Jesus used to cure sick people. So they went there... But then we've got 30 chapters of running around until all confrontation happens in Malta.
One of the most interesting things is that HERV-K really existed and supposedly killed old versions of humans (Neanderthals & Denisovans).
So what's good and what's bad about this..
Good; The thriller part is good, the all thing about new virus is good story, the cure hidden in Christianity faith, the link between geometry and the word of god and I've learn about the Golden Rule. Interesting.
Bad (some spoilers)
- the writer really doesn't show us, how the diseased is catch or jumps from human to human. IT just do.
- we are told, a couple of times, world is in chaos, but HOW in chaos, how bad it is? We don't know. There is no logic on how rapid people died. Some take 6 days, some one.
- We are told that sub-Saharan people are immune. Being most of them french colonies, and we are told everything started there, and existing a lot of black people in France, nobody put one plus one?
- The justification about how black people are immune is quite interesting... the author things (and she specifically says) we are inbred. Every white, Chinese etc (so no black people basically) are inbred and at some point mix with Neanderthals & Denisovans. Well, fuck me raw and call me sally. What? I don't know. She is the palaeontologist. I thought that we had involved directly from neanderthalensis to Homo Sapiens but it seems no. It seems that we eurasia (and america due the eurasia) are a mix of neanderthalensis plus homo sapiens but Africans just kaput into sapiens directly. Interesting as well is that Europeans, middle eastern and Chinese evolved in terms of culture more fast than Africans. Must read on why.
- Another thing that made me wonder was the american good and american bad guys. The last page is literally an ode to American being good to the world. They are so good that an african man says in page 54 " He'd be stoned back home for saying it loud, but he thanked God his ancestors had been stolen and taken to America as slaves. In America you had a chance. Here in this barbaric wilderness, human life had no value" (he was in Africa). Damn.
- Russians are bad hummies.
OH well, having said all of these I am disappointed with the novel. I bought more of her books. Really hope from an improvement or else I just spent two hundred or three on all of their books lol
I would rate 5 out of 10.
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So what is my opinion of this novel? First of all, it's fast pace. We've got 60+ chapters in 330 pages.
So what's this about you ask, well it's about
So, we learn that this started somewhere in France and the vast majority of countries start closing on themselves but as any other disease it jumps to every country around and none can contain it. Wars and bombs go off and so on..
So who do we have here, well we have two characters that started this; Anna Asher & Martin. Afterwards they meet us military Micah. This novel deals with a disease , plague whatever you wanna call it and Anna thinks, or knows, that the solution lay in Egypt with the cure that Jesus used to cure sick people. So they went there... But then we've got 30 chapters of running around until all confrontation happens in Malta.
One of the most interesting things is that HERV-K really existed and supposedly killed old versions of humans (Neanderthals & Denisovans).
So what's good and what's bad about this..
Good; The thriller part is good, the all thing about new virus is good story, the cure hidden in Christianity faith, the link between geometry and the word of god and I've learn about the Golden Rule. Interesting.
Bad (some spoilers)
- the writer really doesn't show us, how the diseased is catch or jumps from human to human. IT just do.
- we are told, a couple of times, world is in chaos, but HOW in chaos, how bad it is? We don't know. There is no logic on how rapid people died. Some take 6 days, some one.
- We are told that sub-Saharan people are immune. Being most of them french colonies, and we are told everything started there, and existing a lot of black people in France, nobody put one plus one?
- The justification about how black people are immune is quite interesting... the author things (and she specifically says) we are inbred. Every white, Chinese etc (so no black people basically) are inbred and at some point mix with Neanderthals & Denisovans. Well, fuck me raw and call me sally. What? I don't know. She is the palaeontologist. I thought that we had involved directly from neanderthalensis to Homo Sapiens but it seems no. It seems that we eurasia (and america due the eurasia) are a mix of neanderthalensis plus homo sapiens but Africans just kaput into sapiens directly. Interesting as well is that Europeans, middle eastern and Chinese evolved in terms of culture more fast than Africans. Must read on why.
- Another thing that made me wonder was the american good and american bad guys. The last page is literally an ode to American being good to the world. They are so good that an african man says in page 54 " He'd be stoned back home for saying it loud, but he thanked God his ancestors had been stolen and taken to America as slaves. In America you had a chance. Here in this barbaric wilderness, human life had no value" (he was in Africa). Damn.
- Russians are bad hummies.
OH well, having said all of these I am disappointed with the novel. I bought more of her books. Really hope from an improvement or else I just spent two hundred or three on all of their books lol
I would rate 5 out of 10.
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