Thomas Greanias

The Atlantis Revelation caps a very entertaining trilogy

I was already a fan of Thomas' previous two books, 'Raising Atlantis' & 'The Atlantis Prophecy' - both of those were rollicking fun, totally entertaining, and a great way to escape on intriguing adventures for a few reading hours. I am happy to say that 'The Atlantis Revelation' is a worthy successor in the Atlantis trilogy. It is smart, well-researched, has loads of action, and presents fascinating concepts that kept me interested the show more whole way through. It takes the reader on a whirlwind journey to interesting places - from Corfu & the Calypso Deep to Azerbaijan to Rhodes to Jerusalem and more.

Mr. Greanias is a talented thriller author who never disappoints. His characters are well-fleshed out & jump off the page with life. His storytelling skills are solid. I have read thrillers and adventure novels where authors got so engrossed in the details of place and technology that they let the story drop, drag, and sometimes nearly evaporate. A thriller needs to be fast-paced with enough detail to make the setting come alive for the reader, but always keeping the story strong and at the forefront of the reader's attention. Thomas strikes that balance perfectly. You can rest assured when you pick up any of the books in the Atlantis trilogy that you will be turning pages super fast.

Great entertainment, highly recommended!

Rai Aren, co-author of Secret of the Sands show less

I plowed through the first novel in this two novel edition and couldn't force myself to finish the second one. It seemed to be more assembled than written and timed to come out about the same time as Dan Brown's new Masonic book. It is a mixture of Atlantis and Masonic folklore and myth. I found it to be disjointed and confusing with almost cartoon type characters who I could not warm up to.

I keep trying on Atlantis books and so far I've found none I like, and at this point I'm pretty sure I just won't.

Where to start. There are two main characters in this novel. Conrad Yeats and Serena Serghetti, she's a self-righteous bitch and he's an insane sociopath with Daddy issues.

The story starts simply. Someone at NASA finds a big honkin' pyramid under the ice in Antarctica, then calls in his adult son to come look at the thing.

Not to be left out the Pope sends a former Nun, who just show more happens to know Conrad, down there too. I'm not exactly sure why every fictional book I've read always has the Catholic church really, really concerned about the famous 'Lost Island', but, there ya go.

It's a well written and crafted book, it's just that its plot is predictable, its characters unlikable, and while it's a bit thrilling, it doesn't do anything different than the rest of its genre. I did have hope that maybe there'd be an interesting and different ending and while I guessed wrong what was going to happen, it, like the rest of the book left me wanting and not in a nice TV cliffhanger way either. show less

I was trying to put my finger on what this novel reminds me of and I think I've worked it out - I think it's reminiscent of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, only instead of being set within the church itself it's set under 2 miles of ice in Antarctica in ruins that have been recently exposed in an earthquake.

That's not to say this is a rip off of the aforementioned like many novels that came out around this time were. No, rather this is a mixture of themes that come together quite well, despite show more the imaginative setting and thought provoking ruins which are described within one thing the book is quite light on is character development. All the characters seem to almost be cardboard cutouts with just a brief outline of their characteristics given which leaves some of them feeling almost cliched. Being an action slash adventure novel however the book itself doesn't suffer too much as a result of the shallow characters instead it rather focuses the reader's attention towards what is happening rather than who is experiencing what is happening.

I thought the setup, execution, scenery and circumstances were interesting and vividly described, especially the latter two. Whilst the theme of Atlantis isn't exactly a unique story to tell I thought this spin on the old myth was good, as such I'll likely be checking out the following 2 books in the series shortly. show less