The follow-up to 2007's The Sacred Bones will not be mistaken as one of the best books ever written, but it does hold the reader's attention even if the eventual answer is almost expected. Charlotte Hennessy, a geneticist, barely escaped a Vatican cabal to keep secret the discovery of Jesus' bones in the last book, and she is again targeted in this book (who knew that a cabal could cross the ocean?). At the center of the plot, DNA extracted from the bones and injected into Charlotte, cures her of terminal cancer but gets quite a few others killed in the process. At the end, a high-level religious artifact comes into play (name three, and you'll have guessed it) and a final firefight finds all right with the world. A quick, entertaining read.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
The Sacred Blood - Michael Byrnes
The follow-up to 2007's The Sacred Bones will not be mistaken as one of the best books ever written, but it does hold the reader's attention even if the eventual answer is almost expected. Charlotte Hennessy, a geneticist, barely escaped a Vatican cabal to keep secret the discovery of Jesus' bones in the last book, and she is again targeted in this book (who knew that a cabal could cross the ocean?). At the center of the plot, DNA extracted from the bones and injected into Charlotte, cures her of terminal cancer but gets quite a few others killed in the process. At the end, a high-level religious artifact comes into play (name three, and you'll have guessed it) and a final firefight finds all right with the world. A quick, entertaining read.
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