Well, when a book is on sale for $1 at a book sale and has an interesting looking blurb on the back cover, you buy it, don't you. The blurb reads
In Antarctica, a glacial earthquake swallows up a team of scientists...and exposes a mysterious monument older than the Earth itself.
In Peru, archaeologist Dr. Conrad Yeats is apprehended by U.S. Special Forces...to unlock the final key to the origins of the human race.
In Rome, the pope summons environmental activist Dr. Serena Serghetti to the Vatican...and reveals a terrifying vision of apocalyptic disaster.
In space, a weather satellite reveals four massive storms forming around the South Pole...and three U.S. spy satellites disappear from orbit.
These are the end times, when the legends of a lost civilization and the prophecies of the world's great religions lead a man and a woman to a shattering discovery that will change the fate of humankind. This is the ultimate voyage, a journey to the center of time, as awe-inspiring as the dawn of man--and as inevitable as doomsday. This is RAISING ATLANTIS....
Written in 2005 and weighing in at 305p in small paperback format, it was a quick read (thanks goodness) but a disappointing one. The characters were all completely unrealistic and the story just got completely out of control as time went on, stretching the realms of plausibility to a ridiculous degree. Not recommended.
While on the topic of 'End of Days' books, they are aren't all bad. Some of the better ones I have read are
I have read it a couple of times and it was just as enjoyable second time around
Just finished it recently. Now that's how you write that sort of book. The master!
Another one of my favourite writers and a very different take on an 'End of Times' theme.
Do yourself a favour. Bypass Raising Atlantis and read one of these others.
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