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Title: The Blood of the Lamb

Author: Thomas F. Monteleone

Narrator: David Stifel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-17

Publisher: Mean Eyed Cat

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

In an apocalyptic thriller, Father Peter Carenza learns that his extraordinary and seemingly miraculous powers to both heal and kill are the result of a Vatican-orchestrated scientific project to create the next Messiah, and becomes the center of a religious upheaval as he begins his own journey across America in a bitter confrontation with organized religion.

Members Reviews:

Great plot, but poor ending

Here is a book which had all the makings for a truly great novel. It has a great plot, with a very believable storyline, i.e. the origins of the Anti-Christ. I think in many respects this view of the Anti-Christ's origins is highly plausible, and I give much kudos to the author for developing it.

However, the ending was very anticlimatic. Maybe the author ran out of steam towards the end. Nevertheless an interesting book to read for many individuals (Christians and non-Christians alike) who may also be students of Eschatology (the study of end-times theology).

Amazing !!

I know the author, and am so impressed. He is brilliant !! It always amazes tme how an author can have so much im agination to create such a tale. Beautifully, and respectfully written.

Spellbinding

Pros

This is a fascinating book written by a very talented author. I think I would categorize it as Science Fiction rather than Horror. What a write! The plot was spellbinding. Mr. Monteleone is a master at dramatizing, setting a mood, building tension, suspense and imagery. The scene in the desert was mindboggling! The mugging scene in which he killed the robber, seared the consciousness.

Cons

There were, for me, troubling conflicts in the plot. Peter, cloned from the blood of Christ, was supposedly turning into a monster. Yet, he really had done nothing wrong. Even when Dan died, Peter was not in control of the electric bolt that gave Dan a heart attack - plus Dan was attacking him as Peter warned him to stay back.

Some were saying he had a darkness within him and he was evil. Well, the democrats have been saying that about the republicans for years (and vice versa,) and nobody even pays attention to them.

Was he Christ? In my point of view, if you make a clone of a living entity, that's all it is - a replica. From then on it becomes a question, do we have free will or are we predetermined by fate. Regardless of what you believe, the book makes for fascinating reading.

Great Book, Great Characters, Great Story!!

While cloning Jesus might seem like a great thing to be doing, on the surface, we find out that it might not be the best thing to be doing. Thomas F. Monteleone comes out with a great premise. Suppose the Vatican cloned Jesus to bring about the Second Coming. As with most any book of a religious basing, the Vatican once again becomes the bad guy. But, in truth, as the book progresses, the idea of any villian or hero beomes mixed and confused. Monteleone has done something that I absolutely love to hate. He has made the true villian of the book a most interesting and lovable character. All of the clues are put before us in this wonderful thriller, but we choose to either ignore them or interpret them in a totally different light as the story progresses. It makes for excellent storytelling when a plot that twists as much as this one does turns the characters the reader abhors into the actual "white hat good guys." It is seldom that a writer can do this in a satisfactory way, but Monteleone has pulled it off with stunning success.