Book Review: 33 A.D. by David McAfee

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The vampires ofthe era have long sought to gain a foothold into Israel, but the faith of thelocal Jewish population has held them in check for centuries. 

When one of their own betrays them to follow a strange young rabbi fromGalilee, the elders of the vampire race send Theron, a nine hundred year oldassassin, to kill them both. 

The rabbi's name is Jesus. Killing him should be easy.
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REVIEW:
33 A.D. was oneof the most creative and well researched books that I have read in a long time.The book is based in the timeline that the title states, with the back drop ofJerusalem, in the days leading up to Christ's crucifixion.   The Counsel ofThirteen is a small underground government invented and ruled by vampires. Theyhave long wanted a stake in Jerusalem, but there is a young rabbi that isteaching the Jewish population about love and forgiveness.
Theron, anine-hundred year old vampire, and the Lead Enforcer working for the counsel,has been sent to stop the spread of rabbi's sermons, and to dispose of arenegade vampire that has chosen to side with the proclaimed 'son of god'.Failure is not an option if you are part of the Bachiyr race (the term used forvampire), and it is punishable by death or a fate worse yet. The Bachiyr thatcannot stand the tests of the counsel are left wondering the world as afestering corpse that serves as slaves to the vampire race.
The vampires inthis book are powerful and ruthless – exactly how I like them. They feed off ofhumans to survive, but there is only one small problem, people who have faithin god seem to have a strange glowing ward that surrounds them. The essence thatshines from these people proves to be a problem for the vampires. The closerthe vampire comes to a person that is protected by their faith in god, the weakerthey become, and they are unable to feed from the faithful.
The human rabbinamed Jesus of Nazareth would be an easy kill, if Theron could get close to him.
FROM THE BOOK:It was not unheard of, of course, for ahuman to possess such a strong faith as to ward off one of his kind, but it wasrare. Theron had been surprised to see the strong glow around Jesus, who'd beenonly the third such person the vampire had encountered in his nine centuries.
In a strangetwist of events, and a monumental amount of 'what ifs', the author wove a greatweb of lies, murder, deceit and conspiracy among the vampire race and Christ'scrucifixion.  I look forward to read the sequel61 A.D. Well done David McAfee.



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