I couldn’t really care about the artifacts themselves because of the overly simple back story and yawn, yet another doomsday prediction hidden in them.Īva, the so called brilliant academic (who is barely 25) came across as such a smug know it all who makes terrible decisions, that even the learning for me was tempered with annoyance. The book stressed me out in parts when I realized Beckett loves a high body count – there were so many murders and killings, I lost count, and this was in the first half of the book itself. The basic plot seemed intriguing enough – I am a sucker for anything with history and artifacts. You know when you watch a TV show or a movie with subtitles, you start reading the subtitles because the acting is so bad that you need a distraction, and then you further feel like you are watching a bad play? That’s how reading the dialogues and conversations made me feel. It feels as if the writer wanted to jam in as many words as possible in some chapters and write the barest of outlines in others. The Cana Mystery is a very awkwardly written book, with strange sentence constructs and odd paragraph breaks. I do not understand where all the love is coming from. And some reviewers comparing this to Indiana Jones and Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon make me very perplexed.
The book takes us through the United States, Egypt, Malta and Italy with a narrative weaving between past and present day.įirst things first, I would like to express my disbelief over the 5-star ratings this book has received on Goodreads.
In The Cana Mystery, we have ancient artifacts (supposedly owned by Jesus Christ) re-discovered in the modern day and the ‘thrilling’ chase by one genius know it all and her bumbling well meaning buffoon of a boring love interest to secure their safety. I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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