{"id":495,"date":"2017-06-22T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:32:03","slug":"book-7th-son-descent-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/22\/book-7th-son-descent-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: 7th Son &#8211; Descent (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1316636222l\/6474698.jpg\" alt=\"7th Son: Descent\" width=\"315\" height=\"475\" \/>7<sup>th<\/sup> Son: Descent<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nYear: 2006<br \/>\nAuthor: J.C. Hutchins<br \/>\nLength: 368 pages<\/p>\n<p>I managed to find this book on a table full of free books at a convention some time ago and tucked it away in my \u201cto read\u201d pile. Now that I\u2019ve finished most of the Goodreads giveaways I have received, I decided to give it a read. With nothing other than the title (which doesn\u2019t tell me much) and the cover (which gives a little more information), I honestly didn\u2019t know what to expect from this book. Since it was on a table of free books, I didn\u2019t have much expectation for it, but boy did it ever deliver!<\/p>\n<p>With a fantastically engaging idea and a blisteringly fast execution, <em>7<sup>th<\/sup> Son: Descent<\/em> pulled me in from the get-go and wouldn\u2019t let go. Action! Espionage! Science! Without ever becoming too mired in the details (but providing enough to have the plot make sense), this book successfully made a story about cloning that wasn\u2019t trite or clich\u00e9. The ideas and characters contained within were unquestionably too big for this book since it introduced many subplots but never concluded them. Still, there was enough of a conclusion to this book to leave me satisfied without it being too much of a cliffhanger.<\/p>\n<p>My one qualm with <em>7<sup>th<\/sup> Son: Descent<\/em>, other than the brief, horrifying moment of implied violence involving a pneumatic socket wrench, was that there were almost too many characters. I understand that there needed to be a well-rounded group of clones, but I honestly couldn\u2019t tell you anything significant or memorable about at least two of them. I mean, you have the free-spirited musician, the conspiracy-nut hacker, the gay marine, the priest, and the egomaniac criminal psychologist, but I guess the U.N. employee and the other guy (I can\u2019t even remember what he did) didn\u2019t stand out to me. Maybe they play a bigger role in the later books, but they seemed undeveloped in this one.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent, action-packed science fiction book that left me wanting more, I give <em>7<sup>th<\/sup> Son: Descent<\/em> 4.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7th Son: Descent Year: 2006 Author: J.C. Hutchins Length: 368 pages I managed to find this book on a table full of free books at a convention some time ago and tucked it away in my \u201cto read\u201d pile. Now that I\u2019ve finished most of the Goodreads giveaways I have received, I decided to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,54],"tags":[47,644,645,55,643,8],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-5-stars","category-book","tag-47","tag-7th-son","tag-7th-son-descent","tag-book","tag-j-c-hutchins","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}