Adrian d'Hagé

For a book called "The Inca Prophecy," an awful lot of the first half of the book is dedicated to political strife in present-day Middle East. I understand that a book needs to set up the story, but this seems to take much too long to do it, to the point where I'm barely hanging on and just turning pages waiting for it to be over, and for something interesting to happen.

And then, bam! Everything's different - key characters are in different places doing different things, and we have no idea why. It's as if someone has torn out 50 pages of my book and it's very jarring. So jarring, I almost gave up on it right there, but I hate to give up part way through a book. 180 pages of semi-relevant stuff, and then we leave out key plot points entirely?… (mere)

I wanted to like this but there was something missing from the narrative to make this a really good book. I think it was due to the time line being all over the place. This novel is in two parts and they are almost two different stories. There is an explained time gap between the two stories in which a lot seemed to have happened but not properly explained. There there is the ending. It just ends. The final words could have been "It's your move, now." Not a conclusive ending. It could have been better.… (mere)