Religious Right fever dream, not science fiction. Useful if you want to understand the etiology of a handful of the more out-there conspiracy theories but otherwise don’t bother.

This book had potential as a SCI-fi premise, but there were too many unforced errors. First, the characters: the researchers acted like children. Typically these types of academics are about as dry as you can find. The military people were a joke. A Lt isn’t even in the same meetings as a general unless it’s to take notes and get coffee. Second, the premise development: Lastly, the narrator was reading as though for a child and the production music added no “suspense” of that was the purpose. Skip this one. Fortunately for me it was free from the VIP list.

The late Dr. Heiser was one of the best academicians in Hebrew and Semitic languages of the early 21st century, but novel writing was not his thing. I give it 2 stars for his attempt to write in a genre that is not academic, and a separate 2 stars for the narrator who had to work with it.

This is a hard book to classify but I'm giving it 4 stars as it's original, I'll say that much. Some readers (or listeners) might find the religious aspect overbearing but I found them quite appropriate given the subject matter, though other religious voices might also have helped. I will need to give this book another listen as my opinion may well change. We'll see.

Can’t get beyond the narrator.

Ridiculous. The narrator seemed to sense this…