Accidental Prophet
by Bud Gundy
Intelligent, handsome, and struggling to make his rent, thirty-year-old Drew Morten loses his only meaningful relationship when his grandmother dies. A famous television anchor, Claudia Trenton, leaves Drew the legacy of her secret memoir. From the fate of a vanished medieval prince to a top-secret NASA study about a mystifying space object, her unreported discoveries hum with wonder.
But history merges with the present and upends Drew’s life when he has a terrifying revelation. Teaming up with a brilliant woman who receives the same vision and a handsome man whose arrival is either fortuitous or sinister, Drew follows the clues in his grandmother’s memoir and races against time to save the world from an apocalyptic nightmare about to be unleashed in downtown San Francisco.
As catastrophe looms, so does the question: Who, or what, is the real enemy?
Momma Says: 3 stars⭐⭐⭐
While Accidental Prophet is more Sci-Fi than romance, the story is interesting and unlike anything else I've come across. The story has a strong start, but wanes some at times, especially as it moves back and forth between past and present. Speaking of past and present, we get a book inside a book here as we get Claudia's story from the past while also getting the here and now with Drew. With so much going on, I would've expected more questions to be answered, more explanation of some things, but I feel like some pretty important topics weren't explained at all while others were done to death. That's my biggest complaint with this one. There was just too much happening and then we have the rush to get things tied up in a neat little bow for the conclusion. Sorry to say that not everything made it into that bow - a few strands were left hanging. I don't read a lot of Sci-Fi, so maybe it's just me, or maybe I missed it, but I had questions about how some things happened or why they happened and I didn't get the answers. I'm not one who needs to be spoon-fed, but with this one, I feel like I needed some of that.
While Accidental Prophet is more Sci-Fi than romance, the story is interesting and unlike anything else I've come across. The story has a strong start, but wanes some at times, especially as it moves back and forth between past and present. Speaking of past and present, we get a book inside a book here as we get Claudia's story from the past while also getting the here and now with Drew. With so much going on, I would've expected more questions to be answered, more explanation of some things, but I feel like some pretty important topics weren't explained at all while others were done to death. That's my biggest complaint with this one. There was just too much happening and then we have the rush to get things tied up in a neat little bow for the conclusion. Sorry to say that not everything made it into that bow - a few strands were left hanging. I don't read a lot of Sci-Fi, so maybe it's just me, or maybe I missed it, but I had questions about how some things happened or why they happened and I didn't get the answers. I'm not one who needs to be spoon-fed, but with this one, I feel like I needed some of that.
❃❃ARC provided by NetGalley and Bold Strokes Books, Inc.
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