Entangled

De: Graham Hancock

Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Graham Hancock - introduction

Graham Hancock has spent decades researching and writing some of the most ambitious and successful nonfiction investigations into ancient civilizations and wisdom. Entangled uses all of Hancock's skills and knowledge to propel a fantasy adventure like nothing else preceding it. This is a time-slip novel, alternating between present-day California, Brazil, and prehistoric Spain, with two teenage female protagonists who must come together to avert an incredibly bloodthirsty takeover of the human race.

Entangled is the first book in a trilogy relating the story of an unrelentingly evil master magician named Sulpa who is on the loose and determined to destroy humanity. Leoni, a troubled teen from modern-day Los Angeles, and Ria, a young woman who lives in Stone Age Spain, meet in a parallel dimension outside the flow of time to stop Sulpa's spectacular, deadly materialization in the modern world. Riding a growing wave of interest in parallel dimensions and imaginary worlds (The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Golden Compass are recent Hollywood examples), Entangled will have immediate appeal to readers and listeners of Philip Pullman, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman,and Kate Mosse, among others.

But Entangled has the added merit of being grounded in solid anthropological and scientific research. Hancock calls on his years of research into cutting-edge issues, including the "Neanderthal enigma", the nature of consciousness, the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, parallel realms, time travel, and near-death and out-of-body experiences.

©2010 Graham Hancock (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

Action-Adventure YA-level but over-the-top violent

Graham Hancock can write exciting fiction. I skipped War God, suspecting that there would be a lot of human sacrifice in the book and I still remember details of such a book I read decades ago from a fiction book I checked out from a library in 7th grade. Horrific.

I see the influence of Dr. Rick Straussman's book DMT which was heavily referred to in Graham Hancock's book Supernatural, and I can only suppose that the intricate OBE travels beyond our space and time were influenced by Graham Hancock's own years of experience with marijuana and ayahuasca.

The plot/storyline is intricate and exciting, but there is a lack of depth and the subtle touches that can be so delightful to a reader/listener. The horror of rape and torture and abuse is so heavy-handed that it serves to desensitize, which may be the opposite effect the author states he desired in a foreword before the actual story starts. And, it is disturbing that the book is written and narrated at Young Adult level, but has so much rape and torture and cruelty at the same time.

I tried to muscle through the unpleasantness but did have to use the Fast-Forward skip option on my iPod a bit to get back to the story and skip whatever cruelty Graham Hancock wanted to expose my mind to.

No more fiction from Graham Hancock for me. I really enjoyed his books Fingerprint of the Gods, Magicians of the Gods, and Supernatural . . . but the fiction is beyond dark.

The narrator has a bright and intelligent voice and enthusiastically reads the story out loud to the listener, but does not "do" character voices that some other narrators can.

Amazing

the book was written very well the narrator did a great job and this was one of the best books I have ever listened to

Great!

Awesome story, loved every second. I would love to hear the story of the underworld though.

great book! full of drama and suspense!

can't wait til the next book comes out! great book Mr Graham. keep it up!

Could have been shorter!

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

If they are into the subject matter yes I would. However if you are into Fantasy/Sci-Fi I am not sure I would.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

It all came together ok at the end. However it does not really give you closure on much as if I remember correctly this was meant to be a trilogy.

Have you listened to any of Khristine Hvam and Graham Hancock - introduction ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Khristine was really the only thing that kept me going with this book to be honest. She kept it interesting however her guy voices could use some work.

Did Entangled inspire you to do anything?

Not really!

Any additional comments?

Overall I would not say this book was bad. However it was dragged out in my opinion. Now I may have been a bit bias to get this over with as I have a new Bobiverse book to read but it felt very slow. Had Graham possibly condensed this into under 10 hours I think it would have been better for the story. The characters were very interesting and to be honest the book is pretty messed up. Takes on some very grim and dirty topics but I think he handled it well. It is not a bad book. However in my situation and this being way outside my usual listening genres I enjoyed it. In conclusion I think if it had been condensed I would have enjoyed this much more and it would have been easier to recommend. Take my review with a grain of salt obviously.