Raising The Past by Jeremy Robinson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Raising The Past
Book Review: Could have been much better.
Summary: 2 Stars
While the other reviewers were correct about the grammar in this book, I really would not have cared about the grammar if this turned out to be a good book. Instead, I think it was a quickly put together poorly developed story with shallow characters. The logic the characters use to make decisions is silly. I wish I could have liked this book as I was anxious to read it.Book Review: Decisions Decisions
Summary: 5 Stars
This book became a real page turner after the base camp was destroyed and especially after they arrived at the citadel. It ROCKED just getting better and better. The author ingenuously blended evolution, religion and complex changing human interactions. The Arctic crew were there for different reasons (fame, science, money, just a job) and they bickered over real or imagined slights. But in the end, the crew compromised and worked together for their survival (and later for our species survival) whether they liked each other or not. More importantly, their survival adventure forced each of them (and the reader) to know and understand the others and why they behaved the way they did.
Whatever else this book is, it is completely thought provoking.
The book starts on the premise of raising a frozen mammoth but an ancient dead woman rolls out of its belly and the storyline changes forever. Religion say demons make humans act "bad" and that god wants humans to behave "good". It is our free will to "choose" good or bad and these unsuspecting scientists are stuck in a frozen Arctic Garden of Eden making this ultimate choice.
The aliens playing the "on the side of good" guys are called Aeros and believe in total conformity to achieve a world of everyone holding hands and singing kumbaya. They corrupt themselves by taking sadistic joy in hurting/killing those who won't share their idea of utopia including holding coliseum death matches. All good guys lose a bit of their shining armor behaving badly. The scientists in Raising the Past figured this out about the Aeros.
The aliens playing the "bad" part (but believe they are the good guys also) are called Ferox and they believe in free will and complete independence and defend at all cost against the Aeros "oneness" idea. The Ferox believe they are the true "good" side yet they also corrupt their "goodness" by manipulating others including the human race in order to destroy the Aeros before the Aeros destroyed them.
Reading Raising the Past was like figuring out the next unexpected move of a chess or video game. Think fast or die! It gives new meaning to the phrase "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" with the trick being to stay alive long enough to figure out who was friend or foe.
Raising the Past challenges the reader's mind in every way and you won't regret "choosing" to read this book.
Book Review: Disappointed with all of the typos and grammatical errors
Summary: 3 Stars
Breakneck publishers needs to hire competent readers before they publish a novel. I haven't read a book with so many blatant errors in decades. It was reminiscent of a high school english paper.Book Review: Editing: 1 star Story: 5 stars
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, yes, the editing in this book is horrible as others have pointed out. Yes, it's repetitive, yes it has typos and grammer mistakes- but I found them to be a handful and by no means is effecting my view of this book.
Another commented on the depth of the characters. Yea, a few were a bit see-through, but it's a plot-driven novel as opposed to a character-driven novel. Author's choice in my opinion.
The story is origional, interesting and a page-turner. I thouroughly enjoyed the plot, the twists and turns, and even a few surprises. It's a great book for any genre of reader- it's got a bit for everyone.
Book Review: Evil versus Good; the battle.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book highlights; even though you don't know it until the end, the battle between evil and good.
It was well-written, fascinating, and a surprising story about the choices we face as the human race.
What's free will got to do with it? This book will make you think about this question!
Good book!Eva-Christ