The Days of Noah: Book One: Conspiracy

Love the Lord and love the authors fiction writing. No garbage filth in the books and that is a blessing. Highly recommend all his books...can hardly put them down once the character line information is established. Remember, if you have issues with the story line, just read the Word and know that he is writing a story. If you want the exact biblical information... read the BIBLE--God's word.

The book had a lot of potential but veered too far into unnecessary explanations and debatable points of Christian theology. Being a born again Christian and a enthusiast of this genre of books, I was excited about a new book from this author. His previous two books were filled with amazing character development, and easy to follow and yet plausible plot lines. This book however, did not live up to the quality and standard of the previous two. In an attempt to paint a good word picture, the book went overboard with explanations. Most people who are reading these types of books are already familiar with the things that the book goes into much detail trying to explain. These over explanations greatly hinder the book and take up space that can be use for further character development. A good story will be able to explain itself. Over explanations turn the book into a school textbook. If the goal of the book is to teach then make a survival book. If the goal of the book is to use fiction to entertain, then let the story and the reader's imagination deal with the explanations.The second area of the book that I had a problem with was the debatable theology issues. Some reviewers have complained about the overuse of Biblical principles. Well what do you expect from a book by a Christian author and its very title is a quote from the Bible? My problem were the debatable issue. The rapture of the Church is a solid Biblical principle where many Christian debate is the timing of the rapture. There is nothing wrong with the author having a personal opinion about the timing of the rapture and its his right to put his opinion into his book. For me though, the way the "pre-tribulation" rapture was use in this book was in a way that insinuated a fact. There was a part of the book that said the rapture was widely accepted in Christianity. This is true; however, the way the book presented that statement is that the "pre-tribulation" rapture is widely accepted in Christianity. This is not true. Pre-Trib tends to be an American idea that is constantly debated.Overall the book was good. Slightly above ok and slightly below "i like it." I found myself skipping much of the news dialogue portions and parts that went too far into the weeds explaining. The characters are what kept this book interesting and their stories were interesting enough to keep my attention until the end. This is the reason for the 4 stars. There were points were the characters stories became a little too far fetched but this did not occur until the end of the book "the trial."Mr. Goodwin still has a enthusiastic reader in me and I will continue to look forward to his books in the future. It is my hope that he returns to the style, character development, and plot style of his first two books.

I read this book in 2 days! It was such an easy read, I didn’t want to put it down. Everything occuring in this book seems very similar to what we are all dealing with now. Excited to start book 2 tonight, Mark Goodwin is a great writer!!!

I found this quite by accident as I was just searching my Kindle library one night to find some stuff to read as I was about done with the last unread book I had at the time.As I picked out a few books to purchase to get me by for a few weeks, I came across this one, ignored it at first and then came back to it as I wanted to buy 3 books, only had 2 so far and was getting tired. I read a few quick reviews and thought, well it's worth a try at the price.I'm not much of a conspiracy theory person and not religious. Not an atheist either, more of an agnostic. But I grew up in a very Christian family and so the topic is no stranger to me. I think the draw for me was more that I sort of like apocalyptic themes (as long as there are no zombies, ugh) and conspiracy theory can be cool too since you know it's fiction. But the liberty theme is a natural like for me, being a libertarian.At first I thought, wow, this is so meh, I don't know, started out very slow, but then quickly picked up and drew me in. Haven't lost interest yet and I'm about 80% through at this point. I like a lot of the quotes in the story, all familiar to me. For me, I wish it was a little more light on the religious side and more heavy on the liberty side. But I understand the author is a Christian, so not knocking him for that. It's just that some of those sections get a little boring for me.Anyway, I would recommend this, it's pretty well written and keeps your interest going.Strangely enough, I was just reading the news headlines for the day, right before I wrote this, I'm fanatic about it (online news, I hardly watch TV at all and the MSM is pure garbage) and it was sort of strange all the talk about the stock market headed for a crash and China being accused of being the catalyst. Maybe Mark Goodwin is a prophet, (;

Agree with the other reviewer, it is an easy read. Story is based on society breaking down, with information (contained in the story)that could help if that were to ever happen in reality.

really good read...working my way through the next in the series

This was my first Mark Goodwin read and I was thoroughly impressed. This man can write. I am hooked on this series and just ordered the next two. Christians are the most persecuted of all religions and Mark gives us a look at how our futures might be if we don't wake up and take a stand with our brothers and sisters in Christ. Check Mark out on the Prepper Recon podcast.

I really enjoyed the book. It took me a few chapters to get into it but once I was hooked I was really hooked and loved it. I have the rest of the books in the series and look forward to reading those. I am very interested in the subject matter so that makes a difference I guess but I thought it was well researched, accurate and written in an easy to read format. Reccommend it

I'm not sure what I was expecting, but the style of writing did not appeal to me. The book had some interesting ideas and the one half of the plot was good. I suppose I would have to read the other books in the series to see what happens......