We all know about the Mayan calendar and the doomsday warning for 2012. We start with an archeologist on a dig and move quickly to an author writing a science fiction book and somewhere along the way the lines get blurry and we are drawn into a parallel universe and earth invasion. Sound confusing? It was a little bit. I had to keep flipping back a little to remember where I was in the layers of parallel in this book. (With due respect to the author I was trying to read the book with the Olympic Games on the television in the background, muted but on) It was not a bad story and it had characters that I enjoyed very much. But all in all, not really my cup of tea. ( )

I do not always like audio books, but I like the reader in this one. The story was interesting and original when in this format. It did jump around a bit, and there were a few loose ends, but it was a good story to listen to while driving. ( )

One of the strangest books I've read. I Started reading it on thursday and I'm already done, but I wouldn't call it a good book, just interesting. ( )

After Strieber's pretty awful 'Abduction' books I really didn't know what to expect from this volume. Well... the basic plot isn't very bad. Alternaive Earths, conquering lizardmen... could have been a good pulp. But it isn't. Lame dialogues, cheap mysticism, a lizard-world intended to be frightening but simply ridiculous and yes, as someone said before too much religious undertone for me. ( )

This was more of a political attack than an entertaining story. Continued reading it for the sole purpose of analyzing the author. Have to admit. It did make me laugh out loud. ( )

The dust jacket description is a great work of fiction.
And that is all I have to say about that.
:P ( )

A fascinating, confusing, fantastical and complicated tale of the possible end of the world, a great battle between Good and Evil, and the state of our immortal soul.

This book drew me in within the first few pages and I settled in for a good read. I love alternate history and was intrigued by the implications of a sentient and evolved reptilian race.

But the plot twists started occurring at an alarming rate and it became harder and harder to swallow. A little over halfway through the book I started to become disenchanted with each new and startling revelation, which came accompanied with an unsatisfying and vague attempt at explanation that never really clued you in. The book had evolved into something that was too crowded with ideas, and it felt foreign and detached from the first few chapters. It was almost as if the author was trying to stuff as many new concepts in the remaining pages as possible before he ran out of room.

The tale finally drew to a tenuous and rather generic conclusion - Evil loses, Good triumphs, the heroes are restored to their former lives and everyone escapes unharmed. Convenient amnesia strikes half the characters and everyone lives happily ever after. A poor ending to what had promised to be a fantastic novel.

It's certainly a fascinating tale and I did enjoy the book. But there are merits to restraint and the book might have felt more polished and put together with some additional judicial pruning and editing. ( )

I have read many theories about the year 2012 and the Mayan calendar. I have also read many theories about the 'end times'. Nothing I had read previously prepared me for the unique approach to the end of time that this author takes. We're talking parallel universes where events occur simultaneously. We're talking about aliens from another planet/universe. Or are we the aliens and are they the true reality? Lot of universe-crossing in this story but I'll admit that it draws you in sort of like the unsuspecting fly being caught in a spider's web.

If you like science fiction with a twist, if you are a fan of good vs. evil, if you like your aliens with a bit of humanity, then this book is for you. ( )

Whitley’s fictional alter-ego, Wiley Dale, turns out to be a shape-shifting lizardman from a parallel dimension, which, um, might explain a whole lot about Whitley’s career path up to this point, don’t you think? (David Icke, meet your new pen pal….) The lizard-people like to chow down on human flesh (“If you can get used to the creamy texture…”). But wait—Wiley Dale and Ann Coulter (!), in actuality, happen to be reptilian guardian angels, and they’re trying to save our planet from an interdimensional invasion of the evil lizard dudes and… oh, to hell with it. Nevermind…. ( )

Interesting, but not what I thought it was going to be about. A bit too much of a religious undertone, but then I guess the title should have been a big clue for me. ( )

I received this book accidentally (I normally avoid anything by Strieber or about "alien possession" like the plague) but on flipping through was intrigued to notice that the book relies on a completely alternate history with five empires, the United States being the weakest. Oddly enough, the alternate history is mentioned nowhere on the dustjacket ... stealth marketing! ( )

didn't finish reading it....way 2 complicated plot and way 2 weirdish...not very entertaining at all....do not recommend ( )