The Cloning

** Contains spoilers **

I do like fantasy literature that has religion crossing into it. I have however been let down in the past by authors who "cop-out" with the story, leaving it open to interpretation without giving a definitive resolution. The most recent of these being "Blasphemy".

The Cloning is more of the same and whilst starts off well (with an interesting angle on the issues for the mother of the potential cloned Jesus) it falls short with what I would regard as a cheap ending and a wishy-washy open question, backed up with a series of religious inferences as coincidental occurrences during the story.

The love interest between the two main characters Marc and Marie seemed fake to me too, it was forced and very unrealistic.

With that in mind though, it wasn't a chore reading the book but by the time I was about 30 pages from the end, I knew I wasn't in for any surprises.

A great casual read which won't demand too much of the reader and like many of the religious fantasy books, won't offend anyone either..... ( )