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Steve Alten (Author)
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Publication Date: 16 Feb 2012 | Series: The Mayan Trilogy

It is 2047: fourteen years since Jacob Gabriel descended into the Mayan netherworld, while his twin brother turned from their chosen path, opting to remain behind.

Immanuel Gabriel - still running from the forces that hunt his bloodline - believes his actions proved his role in the Mayan prophecy to be nothing but an ancient myth. Now, though, he will realize his mistake.

As the prophecy begins to repeat itself and mankind once again faces annihilation, Immanuel learns there was only ever one person with the power to end the cycle of destruction: himself.

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  • Paperback: 488 pages
  • Publisher: Quercus (16 Feb 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0857381717
  • ISBN-13: 978-0857381712
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 208,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'With the storytelling sensibilities of Crichton and Cussler, Alten sure knows how to write a thriller' Kevin J. Anderson.

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Fate comes full circle. It is 2047: fourteen years since Jacob Gabriel descended into the Mayan netherworld, while his twin brother turned from their chosen path, opting to remain behind. Immanuel Gabriel - still running from the forces that hunt his bloodline - believes his actions proved his role in the Mayan prophecy to be nothing but an ancient myth. Now, though, he will realize his mistake. As the prophecy begins to repeat itself and mankind once again faces annihilation, Immanuel learns there was only ever one person with the power to end the cycle of destruction: himself.

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2.0 out of 5 stars So far, so bad 1 Mar 2012
By Chuckles
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Well, I am 100 pages into this book so far and I am not impressed. It so far looks like a rehash of the first two books - a catch-up if you will.I havent picked this book up for 3 days now and am not particularly missing it. I find it very hard going and disjointed. I may finish it, I may not - for me that isnt the sign of a book that is going places...

**Update** I have trudged my way through about 40 more pages and it has got better. It is still very random and rambling. I honestly cannot see how a coherent ending can be recovered from all the loose ends I have read so far.
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3.0 out of 5 stars 3rd book in ongoing series 20 Mar 2012
By Pablo Cheesecake (The Eloquent Page) TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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Three successive generations of the Gabriel family have now been involved in the race to save the Earth from itself. This novel finally brings them all together, no mean feat when at least one of them has been dead for decades. The action moves from 2047 back to 1990 and then forward again to the eve of the apocalyptic event the Mayans predicted in 2012.

Immanuel `Manny' Gabriel is the focus for much of this novel, this is a nice touch as he spent much of The Mayan Resurrection (book two) overshadowed by his sibling, Jacob. There are some good moments where Manny gets the opportunity to revisit some key scenes from the previous novels, but the author has subtly tweaked them to give a slightly differing perspective than before.

Time travel has always struck me as a tricky story element to get right, there is always the possibility that you are going to lose your audience if you make things overly complex when you are write about it. Time loops, past lives, parallel time lines, temporal paradoxes and the like seem to exist just to trip an author up. Alten manages to handle this all quite well and I was able to follow the various cross-dimensional action without any degree of difficulty.

The same criticism I leveled at book two is still true in book three. At times there is a distinct over indulgence of fact that interrupts the flow of the fiction. Don't get me wrong, I understand that a certain amount of exposition is required but there does seem to be an awful lot of it. Like its predecessor, this novel is very nearly six hundred pages long and I think it could have been trimmed down a bit. Losing some of the more detailed explanations would not have done any harm.

That small gripe aside I did actually enjoy the story.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read 4 April 2013
By Robert Gallaugher
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Wonderful service, quick and efficient delivery. Product is exactly what I asked for. Good value for money. Overall, very impressed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book 22 Feb 2013
By Miss R Hill
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Pre ordered... and it arrived sooner than expected. This is a great book but you have to get the trilogy... totally recommend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars hubbys book 16 Jan 2013
By pamela tattersall
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my husband looked everywhere for this book and was despairing of completing the set which he was truly enjoying but now he has found it and subsequently read it he is very satisfied and has really enjoyed it
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great trilogy 11 Jan 2013
By Jim Ellis
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If your looking for a great read then this trilogy of books are worthy of your attention. A great read and thought provoking.
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4.0 out of 5 stars final installment 17 Dec 2012
By sacha
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I'm not really into science fiction but this series of books held my attention well, perhaps the idea of the imminent threat to our planet made the prophesy that much more compelling a subject
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2.0 out of 5 stars Offers little extra and feels somewhat self-indulgent 29 Nov 2012
By Darren
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Having rather enjoyed the first book, then finding most of the second irritating, bizarre and pointless I was hoping this book would be a little more "grounded" as the first. To a degree it achieves this. Thankfully the ridiculously and mundanely detailed descriptions of the technology and culture present in a future earth don't reappear. Gone too is the gratuitous, overly graphic and at times violent sex scenes that plagued the second book. Instead, the author returns with a more current day setting - albeit one that faces an altered reality.

Whilst The Mayan Destiny does make for a more comfortable and familiar read than its immediate predecessor, it's altogether too familiar. Suspense is lost as the course of events follow a similar path as before and you are left with an ironically repeating sense of déjà vu. You are also left in no doubt as to the author's views on particle colliders (i.e. CERN's LHC). For me, it went beyond the benefit of the plot and after a while I began to find it a bit annoying.

It's almost as if the author had written most of the first book before being told that the publisher wanted a trilogy; hence the bizarre second book and a third instalment that offers little extra to the overarching storyline and is somewhat self-indulgent.
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