Chasing Eden ~ S.L. Linnea

Funk Rating: 5 out of 10

Oh boy, I'm now double digit books behind... That's not good... Bad Johnny, bad blogger, [insert wrist slap here]... I'll see if I can catch up, but I may end up just skipping a few that aren't even worth the effort... I seem to have caught a dreadful disease of bad books. So give me some recs!

So why am I blogging this book at all if it's a 5? Well, as I anxiously await the new Dan Brown blockbuster (The Solomon Key, now some 3 years overdue and STILL not pre-order-able on Amazon), I decided to buy a bunch of other religious historical fiction type thrillers. And this one had an outline that I think could have been a winner: search for and find the Garden of Eden. In Iraq of all places!

But these writers have no real reason to call themselves authors, for this is one of the sloppier and poorest efforts I've read in a while. The character development stinks, the plot holes are painfully large, and the entire thing just doesn't hang together. It doesn't make any credible sense. How this book got 20+ reviews averaging over 4 on Amazon is beyond me...

So, this blog is an effort to save you, dear reader, from yourself should you find you can't wait for the next Dan Brown book either... You can thank me later...