The three wise men are hardened criminals and one of them stumbles across the new born Jesus and feel compelled to help the family escape the terror of Herod.
Review:
In the style and quality we have come to expect from Grahame-Smith comes this fantastical retelling of the oldest story of the Christian world. He manages to navigate this story without offending anyone, taking the existing story and filling in the blanks with his own imagination. The writing style and vocabulary is a pleasure to read and the characters are all developed brilliantly. The interaction between the characters and the development of historical figures into meaningful fictional characters is handled brilliantly. The novel is an emotional roller-coaster with love, lost love, tears, humour and rediscovered love. Oh and it is really violent, even by biblical standards, really violent.
8/10
"Nothing would surprise him. Nothing could anymore. But it didn’t matter. Even if it meant the most painful, hideous death a human being had ever experienced, they weren’t getting the baby, and they weren’t getting her. Twenty yards… He gripped the handle of his sword tightly…breathed deep of the desert air. Okay, Balthazar…let’s die."
"there was no honor in betraying a loyal friend."
If you enjoyed this you should read:
everything else by Seth Grahame-Smith
Lamb - Christopher Moore (if it was the retelling the bible bit you liked the best)
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