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Annuna (2009)

af J. C. De La Torre

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The latest two books of the Rise of the Ancients saga are combined into one action packed novel! Book II - Ancient Destruction picks up where Ancient Rising left off as Dan Ryan and Prometheus battles Zeus, Poseidon and the other Gods as they race to a secret location that could be the catalyst to saving mankind. While the battle wages on, we learn the origin of man, the rise to power of the Gods, and the fall of Atlantis. Finally, in BOOK III - Rise of the Annuna - Ryan must go through Heaven and Hell, face his own internal demons, and convince the Annuna to join in a climactic battle with humanity hanging in the balance.… (mere)
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Intriguing idea, good storyline. Could be much better. Mash together Ancient Rising: Rise of the Ancients Book I and this work, listen to the advise of a stern, good, supportive but discerning editor, and you will have a tight and captivating suspense story.

Several characters are unconvincing and really, really thin. While the author goes to great lengths describing the physical beauty of Apollo, Prometheus, Ares and even some mortal males, he chooses to portray a really obnoxious and repulsive character as gay, Women are portrayed rather exactly as in 1940's adventure novels; to ooh and aah over the heroic males, to be rescued when needed, or to be a villainous seductress.

The number of incorrect spellings and hackneyed word choices dropped me out of the immersive experience time after time. Use of science, too, was painful. "We come from the fifth dimension," AAGH.

Saying 'mafooka' stands for the 'f-word' and then sprinkling the mafooking mafooka around like a hereditary WASP billionaire thinks inner-city youth talks is not clever. It just makes you look like a hypocrite.

Good concept, weak execution. ( )
  ari.joki | Aug 11, 2010 |
I read the prequel to this book, _Rise of the Ancients_, and was appalled. The characters were one-sided, the plot developments were often too convenient, the dialogue was excessive and inane, and editing inconsistencies abounded. THIS book has been on my reading queue since June, and I just cannot do it. For your sakes, I hope the prose improved in this second installment; however, I will not be finding this out firsthand. ( )
1 stem wowcaipora | Oct 29, 2009 |
Rise of the Ancients – Annuna by JC De La Torre is an intriguing fantasy that sprinkles ancient gods, mythology, theology, history, and world origins onto the pages and swirls it all into a philosophical adventure and an end-of-the-world apocalypse.

This novel is the continuation of the Rise of the Ancients saga, which began in JC De La Torre’s novel Ancient Rising -Rise of the Ancients Book 1. In Rise of the Ancients – Annuna the story resumes directly after the events in the first book, (that book deals with the mythical city of Atlantis, the release of the god-like Dodekatheon and the annihilation of the world), and contains both Book II and Book III of the chronicle. In Book II, Ancient Destruction, the narrative alternates between the present as Dan and the rest flee the Dodekatheon to save what is left of the world and flashback tales told by Prometheus, detailing the history of the Annuna and the Dodekatheon. In Book III, Rise of the Annuna, Dan journeys to the home of the Annuna, a trip that eventually leads to the final showdown.

Rise of the Ancients – Annuna is an interesting take on fantasy tradition. It juxtaposes myths, legendary tales and modern religion, interlacing it with a good saga of heroes vs. villains. The characterization is excellent, with the intrepid heroes nicely flawed and all villains delectably ruthless. Throw in a heavenly host and a few demons and you get a fascinating narrative discourse.

I enjoyed the book and found it appealing, although I did find the pace at times a bit uneven. Events that went previously are often explained, and while this does add to the narrative it also slows the story. In addition some of the flashbacks meander just a touch. Still, overall, the book’s storyline had a good flow, and held my attention.

I liked the ideas presented in this book, and found both the story and the perspectives offered to the reader engaging. I recommended it as a distinctive fantasy novel. ( )
  scribe77 | Jul 28, 2009 |
I have to agree with some of the other reviewers of this book. There are way to many flash backs...although they helped me since I did not read the first book in the series it seemed like every time I turned around the was another flash back.

The battles seemed to end before they really had a chance to get started and the main character just did not seem real to me.

My biggest problem was imagining the mythical gods in modern times. They just don't belong in this kind of a setting. ( )
  luvbug11 | Jul 16, 2009 |
Can you have a book featuring the Greco-Roman pantheon (as well as the deities of other religions) running rampant over the Earth and not have deus ex machina?

I'm sure you can, but with Annuna by J.C. De La Torre, you won't.

When I first received Annuna, my initial reaction was "All right! It's like Clash of the Titans meets Comparative Mythology!" And then, my second thought was "Oh man! I didn't read the first book in this series. I hope it won't interfere with my enjoyment!"

That's honestly how my thought play out upstairs...

But let me just point out that if you haven't read Ancients Rising by De La Torre, that won't interfere with your enjoyment of this book.

What really, really interfered with my enjoyment of this book was the fact that it had a decent story in it, only the story was lost in Pop Culture references.

I suppose authors like to give their novels a bit of reality (after all, the Dodekatheons running around and destroying Earth really doesn't help you relate with a story), like adding references to things like (for example) The Matrix, or Harry Potter, or even the Large Hadron Collider. But when the narrator cannot describe one thing without referencing something in popular culture, well, it leaves me wondering if the author can only describe things as analogs of other things. And in the end, it gets annoying.

Wow, I feel like one of those guys who can never be happy with anything I've read.

I had some issues with this book that also detracted from my enjoyment of it:

First, it seemed that the only purpose of female characters in the book is to act as objects of desire for the men to pine after or rescue or look at lustily or for a male to angrily call "bitch" whenever one of them did something wrong. Every single female character was "well endowed," which made me think I was either reading a book set in an alternate reality where every important person was also "beautiful," or reading a story written by an adolescent male with a single-track mind.

Second, Demeter was replaced with Hades as an Olympian. I guess the underworld is more important than fertility, agriculture, nature, and the seasons.

Thirdly, Hermes was gay. Now, I have no problem with homosexuality, I just fail to see where exactly Hermes' homosexuality came from. I mean, he had like a million kids with Aphrodite and was the father of Pan. I'll accept bisexuality, but homosexuality seems a stretch.

Fourthly, the goddesses, other than Athena, seemed to get the short end when it came to being able to throw energy balls at each other. Hera would just watch, and occasionally make snide comments, and Aphrodite would just writhe around and provide a distraction. Yawn.

Fifthly, TOO MANY FLASHBACKS. Part of the reason I didn't need to read Ancients Rising was because every single point that may have required me to do so was vividly explained in a flashback.

Sixthly, the end came in a rush. Once the main character got to the end point, everything seemed to fit nicely into place, and the last few chapters scooted along without any serious hindrance.

Seventhly, it seemed that parts of the book "telling it as it is" (with respect to how true the world religions really are) were on the border of too-preachy, and seemed to fall somewhere between Dan Brown and Henry Whitney Bellows.

Eightly (and spell check is no longer recognizing my ordinals), the book was too tell-y, not enough show-y. When I'm reading a scene in a book, I enjoy descriptions of the locale and whatnot, but I don't need to know the reasons behind the actions the characters take if they're apparent from the context (which they usually are in good writing).

Now, to be constructive, what this book really needed, in summary: less TNA, less "witty repartee" (or more that is actually witty), and actions doing the jobs that words used to say (show, don't tell).

How would I have done it? I would have focused more on Dan's struggle to become more than a man. I would have had the gods rely less on energy balls and more on the raw elemental powers they supposedly harnessed. I would have had a whole lot fewer distracting asides. I would have spent more time describing the scenes and less time trying to describe it by saying it looked like something I should have already seen.

I'm a staunch believer that all writers are readers, and also that what we read influences what we write. My recommendation to this author is to read more classic literature, and let that influence his writing a bit. That way, he'll be less likely to write drops in the bucket or flashes in the pan. After all, classic literature is classic for a reason: it's withstood the test of time. ( )
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The latest two books of the Rise of the Ancients saga are combined into one action packed novel! Book II - Ancient Destruction picks up where Ancient Rising left off as Dan Ryan and Prometheus battles Zeus, Poseidon and the other Gods as they race to a secret location that could be the catalyst to saving mankind. While the battle wages on, we learn the origin of man, the rise to power of the Gods, and the fall of Atlantis. Finally, in BOOK III - Rise of the Annuna - Ryan must go through Heaven and Hell, face his own internal demons, and convince the Annuna to join in a climactic battle with humanity hanging in the balance.

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