The end of the age

The end of the age

here is the End of the Age

The end of the age

book review

by

Rachel S

The End of the Age, a novel by Pat Robertson, starts with a flaming asteroid from space coming to earth destroying California. It gets worse from there with earthquakes, volcanic ash, flooding and inflation. America needs a leader and President Mark Beaulieu steps up talking about unity and peace. People love him, except for a few Jews and Christians. He is the Antichrist.

Pat's novel writing style seems poorly developed. Important events come across to the reader as insignificant because he doesn't focus on them. For example, in a few lines he tells of a person breaking his neck over a wire and dying instantly and then its over.  Horrific flooding in Venice causes dams to break but is hardly noticed by the reader.  The whole event is glossed over. Also, it's difficult to follow the time that passes in Robertson's writing. Time isn't very consistent.  Whole years may elapse in just paragraphs while other events are given pages of detail. I lost track of how many years actually did pass.

While Pat had good ideas to convey about the end of the world coming, the story line was poorly developed and  some parts of his book  read more like a newspaper than a novel. The characters that populate this story are flat and stereotypical. But, I have to admit, I couldn't put this book down very easily. It's still a thrilling read for 13 year olds and up.

I rate it 2 out of 5 stars.

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1996

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