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We thank our guest reviewer Deepika Anandakrishnan for this honest review. Read along for her take on The Return!
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BOOK TITLE: The
Return
AUTHOR: Carter
Vance
REVIEW:
Geoff Allen is a banker possessed by
curiosity, when he comes across a book on the Templars, inside a secret library
while vacationing at his friend’s place. It leads him on a wild chase through
different countries, helping him to piece together several historic puzzles but
also invites trouble in several forms. The story is developed on the idea that
Jesus does have a family and many descendants, all of whom survived under the
protection of the mysterious Templar Knights and the Founders and are living
with the surname ‘Davidson’. It has a lot of information about how they all
managed to survive because, history will soon repeat itself and Satan will most
certainly try to take control again. This might call for Him to be born on
earth again and hence the Christos couple Sarah Davidson Christos, a
philanthropic socialite, and Peter Christos, a business tycoon, meet, fall in
love and have the honour to be His birth parents. Satan has minions all over
the world, especially in The Vatican and spreads fear mainly through one nun
called Sister Regina also known as (the super-hot Italian attorney) Regina
Vergen ( who she is depends on the dress she wears!) The entire book is about
the events leading to His birth and how the evil forces try their best to stop
His birth. Do they succeed at it? Read the book to find out. Or at least try
to!
Personally though, Geoff Allen is my
idol. He is an extremely successful and stressed out investment banker who
could afford to take many days out of his work to tour around the world trying
to satisfy his itch and still manage to have a passionate affair with a totally
hot attorney, and probably looking ruggedly handsome all the while too. I find
it difficult enough to look presentable for a night-out with friends! No wonder
the man dies so young. If this is the level of naivety that a successful banker
is imagined to have, no wonder the author is so paranoid about every
organization in the world.
But credit must be given to His 20th
century parents, who never bat an eyelid to even one part of the humongous load
of information thrown at them(so we shouldn’t either I guess!). They must also be
obviously super naturally equipped to respond with “Sounds good!”, “ Great,
more information!” to almost everything
and to be skipping along cheerfully when their parents are terminally
ill or have just given them the stunning piece of information that they are
actually descendants of Jesus Christ! So the entire world is conspiring against
Him, nothing is as it looks and you are actually fooled into believing that you
are working for some greater good when actually you are working hard to satisfy
the needs of majorly sex and money deprived Holy priests in the Vatican Church.
Imagine that you wrote a 500 page book
borrowing from everything under the sun and somebody asked you to cut it down
to 100-odd pages. What would you strike out? Obviously you strike out the
emotions from the characters, because who needs to feel connected to the
characters when you have so much backstory to catch up to? The author had taken the time to describe what
type of meat the Christos had during Christmas and the type of cutlery they
used (excuse the exaggeration), but not about how the mother feels about
bearing Him or even having a normal baby? Just writing “Thrilled” doesn’t cut
it! I hope the Templars also tell these parents that it is important for a
child to be held as much as possible when it is growing up so that Jesus does
not have any emotional issues when He is fighting Satan soon.
WHAT I LIKED
ABOUT THE BOOK: It taught
me how patient I could be.
WHAT I
DIDN’T LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK: Under developed characters, too much
backstory which never really comes together, typos and silly grammatical
errors, stale dialogues, the hard to ignore resemblance
of a borrowed plot and finally trying too hard to put it all together.
RATING: 2/5
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