Rating: 
Summary: Good Story, Poorly Executed
Review: This book picks up where "A Rift In Time" leaves off. The story is action packed, particularly towards the end. As others have said, there is a definite element of "Indiana Jones" in the book's protagonist Adam Livingstone. He seems to be on a never-ending adventure throughout Europe, Northern Africa and Southwest Asia. In many places, these adventures seem far-fetched. Livingstone is kidnapped at one point. He escapes from his captors in Croatia and makes his way back to England mostly on foot. Presumably several weeks elapse, but the author only spends a little more than one chapter on this.Many of the scenes take place in short vignettes. The reader hardly has a chance to get comfortable with one setting before Phillips moves us on to another scene. For the most part, I enjoyed the book. I only give it three stars because of the problems with the writing.
Rating:
Summary: Not as good as A Rift in Time
Review: This book reads like it was rushed into publication. There are a number of errors throughout, such as one or two narrative disparities w/ book #1, VERY improbable scenarios and plot tweaking, and some embarrassing misstatements that don't square with the book's temporal setting (end of the 20th century). I also feel this book lacks the theological depth and impact of book #1. It is altogether too "Indiana Jones meets Mission Impossible" for me. After all the team's searching, plus being chased and harrassed by the bad guys throughout much of the book, the finding of the real Ark of the Covenant comes, unfortunately, as something of a let-down. That scene could have been presented better. This book is good, and I did have trouble putting it down, but it just wasn't *great* like Rift was. A book #3 does seem to be in order -- book #2 finishes up with some rather large loose ends dangling. To Mr. Phillips: please take your time completing #3... we can wait! Iron out any little glitches first. :0)
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