Customer Reviews

The Reluctant God

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I first read this book last year, after my best friend reccomended it to me. We were both (and still are) Ancient Egypt enthusiasts, and so this was a good book for us to read. And we both loved it! Lorna and Ameni make such a cool team. I love the discriptions of Ancient Egypt and Ameni's adventures. This book's full of detail, and the characters are all well-developed. It'll make you laugh out loud, and it will make you cry or even sob. It's my favorite book by this author, and it's one of the top 5 of my favorite books of all time!!! You've got to read this book, even if you're not interested in Ancient Egypt, but in a good realistic fiction/fantesy story that will leave you wanting more. About that: WHAT HAPPENS??? Aghh, I wanna know!

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Oh, by the way, I'm starting a fanclub for this book! E-mail me at [. . .] if your interested in joining... it's an online e-mail club (where members e-mail eachother, ya' know? And maybe there will be a site), and should start within the month, hopefully.

This book got so exciting I couldn't put it down! I was entranced from the first few pages, and sorry when it ended. (I finished it in math class... do you know, it's really embarrassing to cry in math class?) Lorna was a very believable heroine, and like me in many ways. Ameni sounded like such a nice guy -- I wish I could have met him. When they were brought together and became friends, it was so wonderful! The ending was a real surprise. You must read this book! It won't even take you very long. The only reason I gave it a 9 is that sometimes its writing is choppy...awkward...just sentences here and there. Not anything bad, really. And a FEW of the situations seemed a BIT improbable. But it's still a good book.

This book is the best thing I ever read. I liked all the action and all of the surprises.
I think the people who will read this book will like it very much; when I read this book I could not put it down.
People who love mystery books will like this book,too.
The Reluctant God is about a boy named Ameni and he is held back in time. When he awoke, he had to find these sacred items he was told to protect. Find out what his life was like in the future.

I have read Harry Potter and really enjoyed it. I have read the So You Want To Be A Wizard Series, and loved it. But I have never read a book like this. It was amazing! I got it on a Saturday and finished it the next day. I could not keep my nose out of it. The book starts with Ameni, a "Supposedly Twin Of the Next Pharoh". He had allways loved adventures, but when his father, the Pharoh, died, he found this adventure wasn't going to be quite the same. About 4,000 years later, a girl named Lorna finds a tomb. I am not going to tell you the rest, for that would spoil the book for you, but, just take my word, it will be the best book you ever read. The only wish I would put toward it is the ending. It would be better if there was a sequel, but, no book is perfect. :)

I think the reason this is such a great book to read is that the reader can relate to the characters in the book. Only kids who have some interest in egyptology and reading would read the book in the first place, so thats probably why this book has recieved such good ratings. And who wouldn't mind running away from a few boring duties? One thing that bothered me about this book was how the characters acted towards sneaking into museums, private property, and hiding from the police. From experience i know that hiding from the police, even if one is innocent, can be a nerve wrecking experience. But overall this is a fantastic book to read, i only wish it lasted longer.

This is one of those books you want to read over and over again. Masterfully combining two settings, Ancient Egypt and Modern-Day Britain, two people, Ameni, singled out by birth, and Lorna, who SEEMS only a bookworm with dreams of becoming an archaeologist, and two views on life, it reaches to unknown heights. Through a strange twist of fate, the dual part of the book becomes one, and the plot twists and turns as the two young people chase thieves all across England. In the process, they discover new things about themselves, and their potential. From the gripping beginning, to the stunning and surprising conclusion, the book rolls like the Nile itself. It is a MUST READ

The sister of a friend lent me this book, and I was pleased because books about Egypt are so rare. However, it could have been a lot better. I found some of the dialogue between Ameni and Lorna to be a little bit unbelievable, and I felt like large chunks of it had been omitted, perhaps to make sure the book stayed short.

I also disliked that the author felt compelled to explain the Egyptian gods' reality in a Christian world. It would have been better if she had left it up to us to decide.

Other than those problems, I felt like overall, the plot was good. It won't rank as one of my all-time favorite books, but I'll probably wind up buying it eventually.

EDIT: I realized I failed to mention the inconsistencies with Egyptian reality:

Ameni is described as having a full head of hair, which he couldn't if he was being trained as an Egyptian priest. The ritual of cleanliness required that his head be shaved. He may have worn a wig in public, but most Egyptians shaved their heads during the Middle Kingdom.

I seriously doubt an unqualified girl who, although she is knowledgable on the subject and reads heiroglyphs, is still in high school and has no college degree, would be allowed to enter the tomb first. Tombs can actually be dangerous. Some of them are collapsing and are in danger of caving in, and there are other dangers like dangerous gases that build up in them.

There were some other things I had an issue with, but I had borrowed the book from a friend and don't have it in front of me so I can't look at it for reference.

I read this book when I was in third grade, and it is still one of my favorite books ...Service's imagery and descriptions of Egypt are exciting and amazing. Definately a five star book!!!

This is a great book. I'll never get tired of it, and I still read it occasionally. Hehe. Look at my review from 4 years ago at the bottom of this page. Well, at least I can spell a little better now.

This story is adventurous and romantic and historic. It makes you want to go out to Egypt and dig for something like what Lorna found. The author translates the two teen's feelings so perfectley, it almost makes it believable. This book was GREAT!