The God Complex A Novel

Isa s

I got this free from a Kindle promotion months ago and didn’t get to read it until now. This was quite the strange reading experience. It started out with me thinking on the lines of “Oh, I like this writing style … it flows fluidly and draws me in on the first page”. Then, a few pages later the perspective shifted and I began to get bored. Don’t get me wrong. I liked the integration of eastern medicine into the story and that it was deeper than just your normal mystery/thriller. But it did lack somehow in the execution. There were large passages quoted from a diary of a person who committed suicide, detailing his long-term illness years previously, his disappointment with western medicine and how he was eventually cured by eastern medicine. It was just a bit too much. After a while the mystery-part of the story took second row and the ending was taking on a bit of a unbelievable turn. Oh, and sometime in-between there was another shift in perspective, leaving the previous narrator far behind.
I did finish it and I don’t really regret having read the book. However, it didn’t quite live up to expectations. It is advertised as a thriller. Well, this it certainly is not. Even during passages where I felt like I should be “thrilled” I was only vaguely curious. It is a nice work to point out some of the flaws in modern medicine and how alternative methods might sometimes give better results, but that is just about it.

The God Complex A Novel

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