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The Gates of Neptune (Seven Sleepers)

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I started with "Flight of the Eagle," and I just have to read this one. These are one of the best books you can find on the Christian shelve. This book is about some normal teenagers going through a sudden change in their lives. But yet they are brave enought to stand up and face the evil.

Another reviewer said this is "realistic fiction" set in the future. I seriously am wondering what that reviewer has been smoking, since this book is quite a long way away from any logical reality. Yes, these books take place a whole 50 years into the future after considerable nuclear bombing. 50 years. And in that time, Atlantis has been found, made into a functioning underwater city, people ride dolphins as transportation, and somehow people have no recollection of what the world was like before the bombings? Not likely.

The second in the terrible Seven Sleepers series really turns up the stupidity in both the plot and the characters. The writing is lazier than the previous book, the characters are one-dimensional, lack any common sense, and are faced with "challenges" which require about two brain cells to solve. Unfortunately, that is one too many for these main characters, and it results in completely illogical and unrealistic scenarios.

With dashes of unintentionally funny dialogue and pop culture references from the 1950s, this book is an exercise in the mundane and intellectually insulting. Spare your children or yourself the mind-numbing stupidity this book tries to pass off as writing. Seriously, this book essentially follows the same formula as the rest: Goel says go somewhere, the characters do many stupid things, their inability to think gets them captured, then Goel bails them out. Repeat. Then again, the book would only be 20 pages long if the characters had ANY common sense.

If this is what post-bombing reality is like, I hope I am nothing more than ash and slag when it happens.

I'm going to say the same thing on every one of these reviews: there are better spiritually-themed books for children (I wouldn't give this to anyone over the age of 7, and even that would be doing them a disservice). Get something else for them to read, something which is a representation of good writing, and doesn't assume the reader has the intelligence of an eggplant.

Exciting book for teenagers. An alegory about God and good and evil. But you don't have to be a teenager to enjoy it. I'm not!

This book is soooooo exciting, this series is the best that i have ever read! i would recommend it to anybody who likes fun, excitement and thrill on every page!!! i couldn't put it down! this series is a must read!!!

The Seven Sleepers go under the sea to save Atlantis from the Dark Lord. Sarah has to learn to overcome her "overtrust". Josh and his friends beat, not only the bad guys, but giant sting rays, sharks, and giant squid as well.

The lesson of this story is faithfulness and forgiveness. Goel gives a command to Sarah, but in her fear and foolishness, she adds on to it when she repeats it to the other sleepers and that little addendum leads them straight into a prison cell. The young admiral of Atlantis and Sarah both need to know that Goel can forgive and give another chance to show faithfulness. The Seven Sleepers series is Science Fiction in that it is futuristic. It is not meant to be fantasy. It is meant to be realistic fiction set in the future, but it seems like fantasy most of the time! The story takes place after the earth has been almost destroyed by nuclear warfare. What's left has been genetically changed and messed up. All sorts of strange creatures and people exist now that didn't before. Whether it be giants, dinosaurs or something else, most of "Nuworld" is strange and seems like something that could only exist in fantasy. The sleepers are 7 children who were placed in sleep capsules right before the war began, then the capsules opened 50 years later to this genetically altered world.

~ CTF Devourer.com

Samuel 12:24 - But be sure to fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.

There is no way to describe the feelings that I experenced while I read this book. Deffinetly read them all!

Exciting, thrilling, fantasy filled, romance. A book of the ages. couldn't put it down.