Iluminati

by P.J. Webb

A MYTH TO BELIEVE

Aedan’s life is forever changed one fateful morning when masked soldiers arrive in his medieval English village and lay waste to everything in sight. He is saved and transported to a new world where secrets are revealed to him, secrets which if others found out could threaten the lives of millions.

Genres: Fantasy

594 pages, Paperback

First published February 23, 2015

Reviews

[Pink Wine · Rating 1 out of 5]

In-spite of having read the book a long time back, I did take months to write this review and choose my words carefully. I am not sure if I did justice to the book by writing this review but, well is what I felt after reading this book. And it is about writing an honest review, right!!

Illuminati is the first book of the series yet to be published, and this is perhaps the major reason for my disappointment in the book. The author has immense potential, vast level of imagination and amazing writing skills, what I felt lacked in this book was little more structure.

My personal opinion, this book was incomplete at every level ever possible while writing a book in a series. I understand that while an author writes one needs numerous number of plots, unanswered questions, story behind a story, a theory related to every occurrence and so on... and once the reader is pre-occupied with numerous number of questions, boom!! the book ends leaving the reader satisfied yet dis-satisfied with certain degree of a complete-incomplete chapters. I hope I am making sense!

There were too many plots in this book, too many complicated plots, characters with a painful past that required explanation, reading all this really demanded a lot of patience to reach to the end and then... you don't even realise and you have the answer to the question in two sentence. A plot that dragged you throughout the book was answered in two lines. WHAT!!???!! What was that? I mean, one scenario/two scenario I understand but every plot was answered in a rush, as if it was obvious to turn out that way! I expect more while reading. If I have been patient with a question throughout 500 or more pages, I need justified answers not a one-liner. SOooo frustrating that was!!

Yet I would say, it would have been an exciting venture if the second book in the series was either on its way or already published. Metaphorically explaining this book was like having an entire chocolate cake with molten chocolate filling inside waiting for you, yet the only thing you can do is lick the cream once, why? Isn't it that you have to have atleast one piece of cake (one plot resolved in this case to begin with the another one in the next one).

Illuminati has a strong plot, well-developed characters, great emotions and action inside the book, brilliant writing skills (the molten chocolate of the cake) yet it lacked a little more structure. The level of confusion, excitement, thrill, etc. etc. needed a balance to keep going and finally willing to grab the next one.

I am very disappointed with this book. C'mon its a 542 page book, I deserve a justified ending...

I rate this book 1.5 stars.

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[Birgit · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was in two minds as to how many stars to give this book:
On the one hand, you have a nearly brilliant plot, well developed characters with depth, a very interesting storyline - a young boy is saved after an attack which killed his parents and is brought to live and grow up with two young Iluminati; they have a sort of magic based on the four elements,and are defending earth against a group with similar magic.
And then you have a narration style which nearly ruins it all! The story is told in present tense, something I hate but can overlook, but it sounds like a script for a film (he goes over there with this expression on his face, he then does this and that), or a film summarised by a narrator while it's showing, which very short sentences in a simple language. The author can do so much better which is shown in the dialogues between the protagonists!!
The fact that despite the narration style I still could not stop reading is a compliment to the story itself and the depth of its characters, the humour with two young men trying to bring up a special boy, and the interaction of all the characters.
I would be very interested in reading more about Aedan, Fabian and Artemius, but I do hope the author works a bit on style and vocabulary to make what's going on in between dialogues a bit more interesting.

[Tasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a pretty good book. Basically, it was loosely talking about Atlantis was real but was in the sky with portals connecting to different planets including Earth. The story was about a boy who was different from the rest of his people because of the symbols that were etched in his hands. He was so special that the only other person that had the symbol was a hidden legend. So like I said it was pretty good definitely funny cause some of the characters were idiots. I like it since it was left you before he went to training there will probably be a sequel.

[Debbie Carnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a wonderful book. P.J. Webb has written a story the grabs you from the first page. As you read, in your minds eye you can see the magical world Aedan lives in.

I really loved the full character and action.

This is a must read

[Jessmcc · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book.

Really good book. Everyone should read it. Great story line. I hope there is a second book to it. Go read!

[Raven Delehanty · Rating 5 out of 5]

PJ Webb‏ Has a way of writing a story that makes you want to read everything she puts out. This book was amazing. I couldn't stop reading it. It was exciting and held me hostage

[Kirsty · Rating 2 out of 5]

I won this book in a Good reads giveaway.

I loves the storyline, amazing plot and the characters with depth.
The narration ruined it for me, and would probably deter me from re-reading.

[Luiggy]

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