Status Updates From I, Judas The 5th Gospel

Interesting twists already. The description of Jesus doesn't match tradition, nor does His relationship with Judas.

Judas is the author's mouthpiece, and he comes very close to making a fool of himself. Still, it's a very fun story.

Worst line: "You know the Bible is rather Western-world centric."

This uttered by a 2,000 year old man who talks like a psuedo-intellectual and as a Jew, should know that the Bible is not at all western-centric but is actually near-eastern.

It's interesting. Almost a Battlefield Galactica meets Da Vinci Code story. Mayer is an excellent researcher and his story has layers of factual truth, even if he does make a few mistakes. The writing is good, but the dialogue doesn't sing like it could.

Mayer's genius is stacking a series of unbelievable, conspiracy theories against each other in a way that the novel becomes if not believable, at least plausible.