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The Son Of Man (2009)

by C.W. Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0000796735 (ISBN13: 2940000796733)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Smashwords, Inc.

series

The Son of Man

review 1: I liked this book. At first I thought it was going to preach beliefs at me but after I got started I really enjoyed it. Maria has been chosen to be impregnated with the cloned genes of Jesus and she has chosen Todd to be her husband. When they try to move to a different town the people paying for all the medical work have her committed and him thrown in jail. It is a race against time to save both him and her and find out who your friends are and who your enemies are. Not only will the baby be born any time now but there is a asteroid plummeting to the earth threatening to take out the existence of man kind.
review 2: The glowing reviews of so many readers, plus the fact that the premise of the book sounded interesting, made it the first indie book I've read si... morence Amanda Hocking. I was pleasantly surprised by her work and was hoping for something similar here. It didn't happen.The story question is "What if DNA from the blood of Christ, taken from two relics, was cloned to bring about the second coming?" I liked this because it actually fits with the Biblical account of the first coming. The Jews were expecting the Messiah to be a military leader, a political king of Israel, and lead them to victory over their enemies, establishing God's kingdom here on earth. That wasn't the way things were. Jesus, while fulfilling the prophesies in His own way, wasn't what they expected. The kingdom of God wasn't a political kingdom according to Him. It was in the hearts of His disciples. So it seems entirely logical, in an ironic sort of way, that God would choose cloning rather than a descent from the clouds to fulfill the second coming.Unfortunately, the original premise wasn't fulfilled by the book. While the story of Maria and Todd (the stand-ins for Mary and Joseph) and the conflicts in their strange relationship and the cloning of the baby are interesting, the subplots seemed pointless and confusing. Brother Michael, who is early on referred to as the Jesus guy, is puzzling. I kept wondering if he was going to turn out to be the true Christ or whether he was the antichrist, but instead he appears to be a John the Baptist character. His activities with his homeless companions don't seem to have a point, although that may have been brought out later in the book.I don't know because I couldn't finish reading this book. I kept trying, but after 300 "pages" (out of 900), I quit to read something that was better written. There are long sections that could have been cut. It needs a good copyedit to fix punctuation, inconsistent capitalization, etc. And two adjectives (sometimes with an adverb) are not better than one. The author also has a habit of writing generic actions, e.g., "The whole world cheered." Well, no. Not only do I doubt that everyone on the entire planet cheered at this point, it would have been much more effective to show the characters we've already met cheering over this news. That would have made both the cheering and the individuals more real.This book starts with an original idea and has some good storytelling, but it is just too flawed to give it more than two stars. less

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