The Last Testament - Sam Bourne

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

It has been awhile since the last time I wrote a review on a book. Not that I dont read any books anymore since my campus life is back on. It’s just that I’m more occupied with electrical and electronics books huhu. Not that I have an option not to read those haha.

Well anyway, I’m still Reading everytime I’m relaxing after a short revise and just before I sleep at night and guess what I’ve just finished Reading ‘The Last Testament’ by Sam Bourne. And I’m going to do a review on the book in this entry.

HUHU.. (owh did that ‘huhu’ sounds like a disapointment tone? Haha)

This is the first time I read Sam Bourne’s work. I didnt know his style of writing and I’ve never read any book written by him before, but none the less I had a high expectation for this book. What got me to buy ‘The Last Testament’ was the review and the praises that Sam Bourne got for his work in ‘The Righteous Men’. I was very attracted to read his work after Reading one particular comment by ‘The Mirror’ saying that ‘Sam Bourne is THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE to Dan Brown’s Crown’.

DAN BROWN is one of my favourite writer, and he’s probably my most favourite! I’ve read all of his works, from ‘The Deception Point’ to ‘Digital Fortress’ and the ever infamous adventures of Robert Langdon in ‘Angels & Demons’ and ‘The Da Vinci Code’. All of those Works got me to stay up all night, eager to know what is going to happen next? Not wanting to wait for another day to go through those twists and turns, and in the end of every book never a disappointment to me.

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So after Dan Brown got writers block for LIKE DECADES (not even one book for maybe 5 years!?), I was eager to know… WHO’S THIS PERSON SUDDENTLY THE MIRROR CLAIMED HIM TO BE DAN BROWN’S BIGGEST CHALLENGER??! And is his work really as good as Dan Brown’s? is his writing really as exciting as Dan Brown’s imaginations? I JUST HAVE TO FIND OUT!.

So I got the book, ‘The Last Testament’. At first I wanted to buy ‘The Righteous Men’ but the book was sold out. I bought this book around December last year just after I started my semester break and I just finished it NOW?! January 20th?! WOW! It must be quite boring you think? YEAH, you got it right.

I’m gonna do a VERY brief sinopsis of the book… before I comment it.

The story is about Maggie an enlish-american peace negotiator who was sent to Israel to help on the peace talk there between the Palestinian and the Isreali. The situation in Israel was more complicated than she enticipated. There were high profilelic killings all over the city between Israel and Palestine people to intrupt the peace talk. No one knew who was behind all those killings. Magie was determine to find out. A long the way,Maggie met Uri, who’s father was murdered in one of those killings. Uri is an Israeli. Before his father died, he had intrusted Uri with a secret. A secret old testament which was said left by Abraham (Nabi Ibrahim a.s). The secret was said to be the answers to all the warS between the Israeli and The Palestinian. The answer to whom will be the right decendent to the holy land, either Ishmael (Nabi Ismail a.s – Palestinian) or Isaac (Nabi Ishak a.s – Israeli).

Since the book is boring, dont bother to read it to find out how it ends. I’m gonna tell you here.

At the end, they found the ‘so called last testament’ and the testament said that both the Palestinian and the Israeli should share the land haha.

Hmm maybe you find the plot of the story kind of interesting just by Reading my brief sinopsis. Well, it is interesting but the writer made the time plot soo messy. I mean e.g. chapter 1- you’re in the past like 3 months ago. Chap 2 – you’re in present. Chap 3- suddently you’re in the past again but this time only like 10 days ago. Chap 4 – 10 years in the past. I know that is not quite messy enough if you’ve read alot but try imagine each and every chapters I mentioned just now involved quite a number of different people at different continents and different life style, different names.. just plane confusing! You tried to remember who’s who and at the end you forgot which is the present and which is the past. Haha. There are loads of characters. Each chapters have its own like main charácter. But you have to bear in mind, ‘this story is about maggie and Uri..maggie and uri’ haha. I kept reminding my self whenever there’s uri and maggie, its the present time!

Another element that was lacking compare to Dan Brown’s work was the ‘heart stoping actions’.. in Dan Brown’s Works it is almost so real that you can imagine your self in the book playing the protagonist character, thats what readers like the most. Dan Brown describe each scene in his books with great details (e.g the brutal murders in ‘DaVinci code and Angels and Demons) and not get carried away with being too detailed which can be so boring with some writers..

The one question that kept me going in ‘The Last Testament’ is that, what was in the testament? You wouldnt know until the end of chapters. Unlike Da Vinci code and Angels and Demons, there was only one question that kept me going for the last testament. In Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, each chapters kept you going. Each chapters has its own question and its not gonna bore you cause you dont have to wait until the end of the book to get the answers. Huhu. I miss Dan Brown’s work! When is the next Robert Langdon’s adventure gonna be out!! I’m tired of waiting and there is no news at all regarding any of his upcoming new book. It got me thinking that somehow he’s (Dan Brown) dead or something.

ENJOY..ANGELS AND DEMONS TRAILER..COMING TO YOU IN MAY 2009!