Oft-told conspiracy theories combine to create a confusing story about saving the world.
A professor discovers a global conspiracy, and through an amazing series of coincidences helps save the world.
Kazra Moore’s student, Rick, reveals that his Uncle Yuccah, an elder of the Creek Nation, has important information regarding the Mayan 2012 prophecy–an obsession of Moore’s. The two fly to Georgia where Uncle Yuccah reveals that Kazra is a prophesied hero who must gather the keys of destiny and bring them back to perform a purification ceremony before 2012. He then explains that an evil angel, Zamariel, has been summoned by a secret society, the Order of Kingu, to obtain the keys of destiny, thereby destroying the world. Kazra travels from Georgia to Ireland to meet the key-keeper Odin. They battle the forces of darkness and escape with the key. Kazra then travels to Zimbabwe and meets a shaman, whose nephew and friend give him information and lead him to the next key of destiny. Kazra then goes to Asia, where he is led to the final key of destiny hidden in North Korea. After a narrow escape from the forces of darkness (now called the Leviathan Cult), Kazra returns to Georgia in time for the ceremony, a final showdown and ritual with the crystal keys. It is revealed that the real keys of destiny are not the crystals but human hearts, and with this knowledge the world is transformed. Throughout the novel, Kazra travels from one amazing coincidence to the next, encountering people who help him in his quest. The forward motion of the narrative is interspersed with lengthy explanations of conspiracy theories–the Mayan Calendar, the Olmecs, the colonization of Egypt by aliens and the origins of Atlantis, among many others. The plot often loses focus in the midst of this explication, dulling the suspense. While Kachisi’s ideas are interesting, his continuous use of coincidences and implausible plot points makes the story difficult to follow–there is little or no specificity of setting, and abrupt point of view and tense shifts. Ultimately, the book leaves the reader frustrated and lost.
Oft-told conspiracy theories combine to create a confusing story about saving the world.Pub Date: Feb. 6, 1936
ISBN: 978-0-595-50760-3
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
A first novel, this is also a first person account of Scout's (Jean Louise) recall of the years that led to the ending of a mystery, the breaking of her brother Jem's elbow, the death of her father's enemy — and the close of childhood years. A widower, Atticus raises his children with legal dispassion and paternal intelligence, and is ably abetted by Calpurnia, the colored cook, while the Alabama town of Maycomb, in the 1930's, remains aloof to their divergence from its tribal patterns. Scout and Jem, with their summer-time companion, Dill, find their paths free from interference — but not from dangers; their curiosity about the imprisoned Boo, whose miserable past is incorporated in their play, results in a tentative friendliness; their fears of Atticus' lack of distinction is dissipated when he shoots a mad dog; his defense of a Negro accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell, is followed with avid interest and turns the rabble whites against him. Scout is the means of averting an attack on Atticus but when he loses the case it is Boo who saves Jem and Scout by killing Mayella's father when he attempts to murder them. The shadows of a beginning for black-white understanding, the persistent fight that Scout carries on against school, Jem's emergence into adulthood, Calpurnia's quiet power, and all the incidents touching on the children's "growing outward" have an attractive starchiness that keeps this southern picture pert and provocative. There is much advance interest in this book; it has been selected by the Literary Guild and Reader's Digest; it should win many friends.
Pub Date: July 11, 1960
ISBN: 0060935464
Page Count: 323
Publisher: Lippincott
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1960
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SEEN & HEARD
SEEN & HEARD
SEEN & HEARD
Briskly written soap with down-to-earth types, mostly without the lachrymose contrivances of Hannah’s previous titles...
Sisters in and out of love.
Meghann Dontess is a high-powered matrimonial lawyer in Seattle who prefers sex with strangers to emotional intimacy: a strategy bound to backfire sooner or later, warns her tough-talking shrink. It’s advice Meghann decides to ignore, along with the memories of her difficult childhood, neglectful mother, and younger sister. Though she managed to reunite Claire with Sam Cavenaugh (her father but not Meghann’s) when her mother abandoned both girls long ago, Meghann still feels guilty that her sister’s life doesn’t measure up, at least on her terms. Never married, Claire ekes out a living running a country campground with her dad and is raising her six-year-old daughter on her own. When she falls in love for the first time with an up-and-coming country musician, Meghann is appalled: Bobby Austin is a three-time loser at marriage—how on earth can Claire be so blind? Bobby’s blunt explanation doesn’t exactly satisfy the concerned big sister, who busies herself planning Claire’s dream wedding anyway. And, to relieve the stress, she beds various guys she picks up in bars, including Dr. Joe Wyatt, a neurosurgeon turned homeless drifter after the demise of his beloved wife Diane (whom he euthanized). When Claire’s awful headache turns out to be a kind of brain tumor known among neurologists as a “terminator,” Joe rallies. Turns out that Claire had befriended his wife on her deathbed, and now in turn he must try to save her. Is it too late? Will Meghann find true love at last?
Briskly written soap with down-to-earth types, mostly without the lachrymose contrivances of Hannah’s previous titles (Distant Shores, 2002, etc.). Kudos for skipping the snifflefest this time around.Pub Date: May 1, 2003
ISBN: 0-345-45073-6
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Ballantine
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2003
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