Galilee

Rating:
Summary: Wonderfuly written tale
Review: Love conquers all in this fascinating tale of two families at war. I was transfixed from page one, always wondering what would happen next, and trying to figure out the riddle of it all. From the Barbosssa house set back among the hills of North Carolina, a man sits down to write a family history. It turns out to be a tale of love and hatred between clans- one a powerful American family(aka the Kennedys), and the other a phsycic, magical, sometimes evil family that has been around since the dawn of time. The two could not exist without each other, but yet one yearns for the destruction of the other. A lovely girl from Ohio is swept off her feet and finds herself emersed in the battle between a man's heart and his soul. I thought this book was brilliantly written as well as a great story.

Rating:
Summary: A good book but...
Review: This is an interesting novel. It has a lot of potential for both the fantastique and the humorous (since its a book about two kind of kennedy families, one a "physical" kennedy family and another a "spiritual" kennedy family, either way they are both disfunctional beyond reasons of insanity). Its a good read...but...

...first the novel jumps all over the place...one chapter you are reading a mystical experience, the next you are reading something that might as well have been written in a tabloid newspaper. Finally after around one to two hundred the novel gets going and it does a good job...

...second problem. Its just another Clive Barker series. In other words. You ain't never going to see the conclusion this side of paradise. Just like the Art series and probably with that new series Abbarat or whatever it is called... there is not ever going to be a conclusion because I think Clive writes to a point then just doesn't know where to put the period.

...third, good novel but...ultimately...its nothing new. Weaveworld was a classic novel, as was Imajica (though yes it was too long), but...its nothing new under the sun in the genre of the fantastique and the macabre. Nothing cutting edge which is a surprise since so many people keep thinking C.B. goes to the cutting edge. Really, its not.