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Challenges of The Gods
by C. Hofsetz
Published by The Wild Rose Press on January 7, 2019
Pages: 374
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After Mike goes through a gut-wrenching betrayal by his fiancée, he finds himself in what he thinks might be the afterlife. But this is no heaven. The gods made a mistake and created another Earth in a parallel universe, putting both universes in peril. They need someone from his planet to destroy the alternate, and Mike is randomly selected for the job.
Trapped in an impossible choice, Mike accepts his mission and is returned to an Earth—and a body—so unlike his own. There, he meets Jane, who is—unbeknownst to him—the secret leader of an organization bent on tracking down Earth's saboteur. In the face of her passion for humanity, Mike's resolve falters. If Mike won't complete his mission, the gods will.
Would you kill a bunch of people to save your planet?
Challenges of the Gods by C. Hofsetz is a lot different than what I thought it would be. We follow Mike as he tries to figure out what to do and how to do it in this new body and on this new planet.
What I like:
- Mr. Hofsetz has the story within three parts which works for this book and the way he has plotted it.
- It is written in the first person so all we know is what Mike is thinking and seeing and it works.
- The way that Mike slowly integrates himself into his new version of Earth.
- Mr. Hofsetz has created an interesting little meeting place for these two different Earths to go and learn things.
- The way the main character was able to make everyone believe that he wasn’t the mole sent by his planet.
What I don’t like:
I didn’t like the Messengers as they weren’t good people. Since the beginning, they were manipulating everyone. Another dislike is the whole game that the Gods were playing with different sets of human races. The last thing that I didn’t like is that the person he switched with did two completely different things that make it hard for the other to live that life.
Three Star
Challenges of the Gods by C. Hofsetz is an entirely different book from what I thought it would be. I did finish the book, but it wasn’t one of my favorites. Mr. Hofsetz is a great author, but I had to look up some words, and then I got put off. It is a great book despite that, and I am giving it a three-star rating.
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About C. Hofsetz
Software engineering and computers have been my passion since I was a teenager, but the truth is I’ve been reading science fiction books for longer than writing code.
Then one cold afternoon in November, as I was jogging, my stupid brain came up with a fantastic world of gods meddling with humans. You know, despite our difference of opinions, my brain and I think a lot alike.
After I got home, I couldn’t help it and wrote a chapter. How bad could it be? Other people managed to do it and go back to their daily lives. No harm, no foul. I just wanted to experience it.
Perhaps I could be a casual writer or do it for fun once in a while. A paragraph here or there wouldn’t make me an addict. Brainstorming names is usually not frowned upon–I could pretend they were baby names–and normal people research restaurants and places for other reasons than visiting or having dinner, right? I told myself I wasn’t hurting anyone (yet), and I’m sure it’s considered legal in a few states.
But things escalated quickly. Next thing I know I was writing yet another chapter, and then the next. And the next. I tried to hide it, but my family knew I was up to something. Money was disappearing into writing plugins, helping writing forums and even–gasp!–a writing conference.
When they figured out what I was doing it was too late: I accidentally had written a whole book.
The above is from the Author’s site
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2019 Goodreads Reading Challenge
- 2019 New Release Challenge
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