The wonderful blend of genres – SciFi love story meets thriller, with religious undertones!
In 1969 Astrophysicist Dr. Horace Mitchel spent 3-years alone in a Nevada desert "Deep Underground Military Base" with what was believed to be a female, negroid-looking extraterrestrial visitor from another world. The highly classified black project was a scheduled visitation called Project Mogul. Without any supervision or oversight, they grew very close and more intimate with each other, finally discovering that their bodies were sexually compatible.
They fell in love. Against protocol, she decided to give him forbidden knowledge. He received an understanding of interdimensional travel, and how to manipulate and bend the elemental laws. She even showed him the future and how the world would end and the part he must play in it. He documented every detail in his journal but decided to never completely share its contents with anyone. He feared the shockwave of anarchy that his information would create all over the world.
When the project was finally scrubbed, Dr. Mitchel went on with his life but he knew that one day he would eventually be viewed as the most dangerous man on the planet and have a date with his true destiny. Makia was forced to return to her world, leaving behind her love and the child they created.
Exactly 52 years later, Dr. Mitchel finds himself on an international government hit list, marked for death because of secrets he shouldn't know. He is the only living scientist left from Project Mogul who knows about the government's final plans for Earth and how they can be stopped. It's a secret that they want to keep hidden.
Dr. Mitchel can reveal the damning truth about how this world has always had scheduled alien visitations from the beings that created it. He can expose how the governments of the world, led by the United States of America, conspired to never allow the masses to know that we are not alone and never have been. Dr. Mitchel and the twelve people who eventually join him on his journey, find themselves in the middle of a war that began long ago, a war for the very souls of mankind in this, the Last Visitation.
If you love a good Sci-Fi novel, one that is exciting, unique, and challenges the very limits of understanding, then you will love this easy read. It has many wonderful twists and turns that will captivate your mind. The Last Visitation is the first installment of a two-part series.
The premise of the story is intriguing, but the editing and format needs improvement. It's confusing at times to know who's speaking or who's thoughts you're reading and it takes away from the story. For now this is a DNF, but maybe later on, once the format has been fixed I'll try again?
This story started with promise. An interesting twist on alien visitors and that all that is known is wrong. Totally here for it. And then it got...weird. It turned from an alien sci-fi story to a bizarre religious text that reminded me of the cult I grew up in. It was uncomfortable and nonsensical, and not in the fun fantasy kind of way. More like the...wtf am I reading and why am I still reading it...kind of way. And I haven't even mentioned the book formating and grammar. It was confusing to follow who was speaking because of improper notations. There were a lot of simple grammatical errors that were plentiful enough to take away from the story. I finished it out of sheer duty, because I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway and felt obligated to finish. Never a good sign. I wanted so badly to like this book. It could have been great. The idea is intriguing. It just couldn't deliver.
I honestly do not know how I was able to complete this story. It has to be because it was interesting despite all the problems in the writing. One of the issues is inconsistencies in general. For example, the synopsis for the book gives the date of 1969 for one of the important events; however, it is actually in 1979 in the book. The book also contains a lot of repetitiveness. However, the biggest downfall is the inability to punctuate correctly. The primary punctuation issue has to do with quotation marks. Oftentimes they were missing at the beginning or the end of a sentence or missing entirely. This problem coupled with the lack of separating the speech of various characters onto different lines made it very difficult to follow who was saying what.
I have to start off by saying I think the concept of this book is intriguing, it’s a concept I wouldn’t usually turn to. But since I won this in a GoodReads giveaway, I had to give it a try. I wish I was as positive now as I was when I won this book. I was so excited, but I was let down with this one. I finished this book, but it took A LOT of brain power for me to do so.
You can tell that this book is probably Iber’s first book just by the grammar and punctuation mistakes throughout this whole book. When people were speaking back and forth. I got confused on who was actually talking because sometimes there were quotations and sometimes there weren’t. Then there was the change in who the author referred to someone. For example, Dr. Mitchel was referred to as is, but then his grandchildren called in PawPaw. But that isn’t the issue, the issue is that the author would put either Dr. Mitchel or PawPaw in brackets as if we thought the two were different people.
The author also references the Bible, which I didn’t think is a bad thing because I know this is a work of fiction and I don’t think referencing the Bible in a fiction book is bad. But what I didn’t like is that the references didn’t lie up with the Bible. There was too much fiction within the Bible references and that is something I don’t like.
There also aren't a lot of details leading up to the main plot of the book. I don’t think books should always string along in the beginning to get background information, but there should be some at least. And this book didn’t have much. It was like the plot of the book started right off the bat and then information was added in when characters were talking. I felt like the author had SO many ideas that they wanted to put there, but rushed it. They didn’t map out how to add it all in and how to make it flow nicely.
Overall, I didn’t like this book. I just didn’t think it was a good read, maybe for someone else it would be. I’m happy that I won it in the GoodReads giveaway because it has made me research other books that have to do with New World Order and Aliens lol