The Belial Stone (The Belial Series Book 1)

The Belial Stone (The Belial Series Book 1) - R.D. Brady A quite okay adventure/fantasy/supernatural story. It is an interesting permutation of the old “fallen angels” stories combined with the Atlantis mythology. The story is well done, the characters are interesting and quite likable, or in the case of the bad guys…not at all likable which is the way it should be.

The author creates a nice and detailed background to the events without going overboard with religious nonsense. Some compare this book with the creations by Dan Brown. It is true that those books are a similar type of stories but, as far as I remember the Dan Brown books, this one feels a quite a bit more action oriented and slightly less of a detective story than the Dan Brown ones.

The one thing that annoys me with this book is that the author creates these ancient devices and then he takes the all too common route of just hiding them at the end with the usual “mankind is not ready”. That is just annoying and a cheap way out.

Anyway, a second book in the series have recently come out and I will definitely read it to see how the author and the characters develop.