Charitable group of helpers known as "healers" who wear capes and help the needy, turn genetic manipulating cult, in order to create clone of leader...
Look, I can handle pretty much any plot provided it's done well, and this wasn't a total disaster. For me, it kind of fell apart at the "leader returning through the clones" proposal, mainly because it was achieved through biological, earth based means, instead of occurring in space. Then I would have believed it.
I thought it started well, and was a good read until about 8/9ths through. I have a soft spot for Orson for some reason, so can't totally diss the book, and the idea was really fun. I'm going to blame the bad bits were on the part of the collaborative author...
Feel of writing - slightly intelligent movie script (this is not necc. a total negative criticism)
Escapism - yep
Readability - easy, bit too easy.
Plot - see above. All the threads didn't work and come together at the end. This could have been a really sinister book if written by Iaine M Banks or similar.
Again - no.
Remember- yes
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