Ramses: The Son of Light - Volume I Reviews

Well... this book is just a heap of silliness.

At first I was ready to lay the blame on translation problems (after all, the author is supposedly an Egyptologist, he surely knows the time period), but that excuse can only cover so much. It cannot cover dialogue that is foul enough to be ranked up there with the likes of the Left Behind series and the movie Troll 2. (Maybe not quite as bad as the latter, but it's certainly cringe-worthy.)

Poor translation also cannot account for cardboard characters and a story-line that plays out like it was either written by a stoned middle-school kid or perhaps a Hollywood producer:
"So.. um, Ramses, Moses, and some other dude are all friends right? And then there's, uh, some murder and stuff.. and Ramses brother hates him.. and there's some trippy stuff with, like, the Egyptian gods.. It's gonna be totally awesome! And guess what? I'm going to stretch a single book's story into a whole series!"

The fact that this was a best-seller in France puzzles me.