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Joel C. RosenbergTyndale House / 2011 / Trade PaperbackOur Price$11.494.8 out of 5 stars for The Twelfth Imam, The Twelfth Imam Series #1. View reviews of this product. 36 Reviews
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MimiAge: 18-24Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5April 3, 2013MimiAge: 18-24Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for The Twelfth Imam - eBook The Twelfth Imam Series #1.Unputdownable from the first to the last page! Also makes you become more aware of the what is going on in the Middle East at the moment despite being fiction. Brilliant novel!
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Jessica BatesAge: 25-34Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Great Book!! Highly Recommended!!July 8, 2012Jessica BatesAge: 25-34Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5The Twelth Imam by Joel C. Rosenberg is a book about Islam's coming Messiah. The central characters include David Shirazi a CIA NOC Agent and Dr Najjar Malik a physicist with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. This book is the first in a series and basically sets up the characters, their back stories and how the Twelth Imam, the Mahdi or Islam's Messiah comes to power.
I really enjoyed this book a lot. It is action-packed and well written. There are several incredibly violent scenes as well. The characters are all well developed and easy to connect to. I found myself unable to put this book down several times. I highly recommend reading this book and have already started the next one in the series. -
Thursday45 Stars Out Of 5Tom Clancy Look OutJune 26, 2012Thursday4Quality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5Two families are trapped in Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1978. Their choice to escape the country has profound and far reaching changes, beginning in 1978 and reverberating through time to the present day.
Set in the near future, this book is a taut thriller centered on Islamic politics in the middle east and a possible nuclear armageddon, both of which continue to spin out of control and which may lead to devastating consequences across the world.
The writing style is crisp, clean, and enthralling. The author's command of intricate story lines and detail is amazing, very similar to Tom Clancy's political thrillers. The novel is long, but the reader is rewarded with a fascinating narrative.
There is no sex or language, but this book does depict plenty of violence, including shootings, beheadings, beatings, torture, disturbing behavior, burnings, a car wreck, and so on. The descriptions are not overtly graphic, and the scenes depicted are not extraneous but help drive the plot, often providing motives for the characters involved. In context, I did not find the violence to be overwhelmingly gory or gratuitous, but I'm pretty sure that at some point the main character would have begun suffering some pretty severe PTSD.
Religion is without a doubt the central theme of this book. A radical sect of Islam is pitted against Christians, Jews, and the world at large. While many characters believe fervently in one faith or another, two main characters begin as weak followers of their faiths and the plot line watches them progress towards different points. Strangely enough, I did not feel invited to analyze these characters and their beliefs, because these spiritual journeys are mostly subplots buried in the midst of the chaos erupting in the world around them.
Despite thoroughly enjoying this book, I wish that the author had been even more specific about how much of the Islamic mythology he invented and how much he sourced. The notes at the end of the book helped, but I was so intrigued by the ideas presented, I felt compelled to research more on my own - something that I both enjoyed doing and was annoyed that the story did not include enough sourcing to stand on its own.
I'd recommend this to anyone who gets a kick out of the thriller/spy genre, and who doesn't mind lugging around a heavy book for a while. It's quite a read. -
Mark EvansAppleton WIAge: 55-65Gender: male5 Stars Out Of 5Great read !September 11, 2011Mark EvansAppleton WIAge: 55-65Gender: maleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5from chapter to chapter there is a good flow of the story
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IrishKinderhook, NYAge: Over 65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Holds my interestJanuary 20, 2013IrishKinderhook, NYAge: Over 65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5I had other books to read before I started this one, so I
have not finished it. I find that now I have started it,
I find it hard to put down. It is written well and I can't wait
to see how it ends.
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