Sepulchre

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From a tension heavy thriller to a vicious supernatural horror that has been carried over hundreds of years, the tale’s journey has somehow amounted to one hell of a ride, ending in a truly dramatic and fitting finale.

As I was reading this, I had a strange impression that I 'knew' the character of Liam Halloran - off course, it is a 'typical' Irish name, so might have been used by another author, but that co-incidence kept distracting me from the book. The intriguing corporate element that Herbert has brought into the early quarter of the storyline seems to magnify the threat to a much higher degree. The Corrupter: Having chosen staff comprised of worldwide miscreants, Kline nurtured the malign tendencies of each.In ‘Sepulchre’ Herbert goes hell for leather with an imaginatively elaborate plot, that has spanned hundreds of years, until this very critical point in time.

However, I rented this audio cd out of the library and was completely bowled over by the descriptions of everyone and everything, maybe especially because of the reader himself bringing it to life. The story centers on Lain, an 'operator' for a firm that deals in protection and ransom for high profile people.The book races by with a jam packed plot that will truly leave you not wanting to put the book down. Meanwhile, Shield operative Dieter Stuhr is found murdered, the motive of Neath’s prospective invaders remains unclear, and the true nature of Kline’s powers heralds revelation to shake Halloran to the core. The Serpent in the Garden is traced to Bel-Marduk, an incarnate deity who advanced the Sumerians; demanded Human Sacrifice, and was eventually dismembered and left to die by the high priests - his limbless body earned the name Serpent. Bodyguard Liam Halloran will combat men who thrive on physical corruptions; he will find love of a perverse nature; he will confront his soul's own darkness. After a point, it's just too clear that there's a man behind the curtain doing the splatter painting.

Pretty typical Herbert, and by that, I mean a decent story and characters, the obligatory sex scenes, and a decent denouement. Others of Herbert's books, such as Moon, Sepulchre and Portent, are structured as thrillers and include espionage and detective story elements along with the supernatural. Herbert's writing is the kind that, if coupled with constant scares or gunfights, could serve passably to move the plot along and generate some fun for us all, but it, and his characterization, is totally incapable of sustaining the novel alone. Liam Halloran is an operative for a business that provides security for persons with a high potential for being the victims of a kidnapping.But before I get to the political, some literary observations regarding Sepuchcre: the novel was initially disappointing because it's part of Herbert's later attempts to add James Bondian and thriller elements to his formula--like a band you loved when they first came out who began, after a couple of LPs, to experiment in a direction you didn't like, I found this annoying. However, after Halloran performs a review on the current security measures, he decides that the bodyguard’s training is far from adequate for the task at hand, along with numerous other such security failures that could hinder Kliene’s ultimate safety. White Void Room: Magma's corporate tower has a completely blank room, whose lit walls show glaring white, grey, and a void of total darkness.

new mineral resources; he will combat men who thrive on the worst of physical corruption; he will find love of a perverse nature; he will confront the darkness of his own soul.Mesopotamian Monstrosity: The book goes to Sumer and its mythology for its primary force for evil — the god Bel-Marduk. The plots and subplots are layered one upon the other and not fully appreciated until the dramatic and fitting conclusion. Focusing so much on each character's dark side makes them come across as bizarrely one-dimensional ciphers.