--- product_id: 6559700 title: "The Blood Gospel: The Order of the Sanguines Series (Order of the Sanguines Series, 1)" brand: "james rollinsrebecca cantrell" price: "669332₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/6559700-the-blood-gospel-the-order-of-the-sanguines-series-order store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # The Blood Gospel: The Order of the Sanguines Series (Order of the Sanguines Series, 1) **Brand:** james rollinsrebecca cantrell **Price:** 669332₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Blood Gospel: The Order of the Sanguines Series (Order of the Sanguines Series, 1) by james rollinsrebecca cantrell - **How much does it cost?** 669332₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/6559700-the-blood-gospel-the-order-of-the-sanguines-series-order) ## Best For - james rollinsrebecca cantrell enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted james rollinsrebecca cantrell brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Blood Gospel: The Order of the Sanguines Series (Order of the Sanguines Series, 1) ## Images ![The Blood Gospel: The Order of the Sanguines Series (Order of the Sanguines Series, 1) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/516MWFENQ2L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ all is not as it seems *by K***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2013* Erin, Jordan and Rhun are a part of an ancient and secret Catholic prophecy, which states that only a Woman of Learning, a Warrior of Man, and a Knight of Christ can open the Blood Gospel. The Blood Gospel contains the written words of Christ.Besides being a fight between good and evil, we find out that it is a fight between evil vampires and good vampires. The evil vampires, Strigoi, enjoy hurting, feeding and killing humans. They are against Christ and the teachings of the Church. Whereas the good vampires, Sanguinists, have come together to create a secret arm of the Catholic Church to fight the evil in the name of Christ. They subsist on Christ's blood, blessed wine, which imbues them with the power to go out in sunlight.As a vampire book, I felt this was a really great idea to have the Catholic Church secretly protecting the world from a great evil. The vampires and the marked were not portrayed as all being mindless beasts looking for their next quart of blood. Rather, many were shown to be intelligient and sinister. They were playing the long game in the quest for the Blood Gospel, and in the end, we learn that this quest was only the beginning. It was an interesting beginning to the series. The end leads you to an introduction of where the series is headed.Thankfully, we were not left with a huge cliffhanger. This book had a clear ending, the end of the quest for the Blood Gospel. If you decide not to continue with this series, you will not be reading a book with no ending. So many of the writers of series and trilogies just don't get this aspect of writing them, they just stop in the middle of the story. Cantrell and Rollins are handling the series aspect as professional writers. They conclude their story.Is the story sacrilegious? Herein lies the truth, sacrilege is in the eye of the beholder. There are the hard core, who view making a fictional story based upon any elements of the Bible as a sacrilegious act. Then there are those that feel that touching any aspect of their truths about their Church or their interpretation of the Bible is a sacrilegious act. Then there are those who feel that making a new interpretation of a largely held belief by most Christians is a sacrilegious act. This book falls someplace between the last two.What occurs that could be sacrilegious? In the Bible, Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead to show that he had the power of resurrection. In the book, Jesus saved Lazarus from drinking human blood by giving him his blood. Keep in mind, that 5 people, other than Jesus and Lazarus, were resurrected in the Bible, and they were not directly attributable to Jesus or God. Also, at the end of the book, another is said to be a Strigoi, who was also of importance in the Bible.Jesus wrote a gospel, which contained a prophecy. The prophecy appears to mirror some of the Bible. Yep, there is some changes to reflect the story, and yep, there is no evidence that Jesus ever wrote a thing. So, I feel all the Bible changes were relatively minor, and they are no more sacrilegious than the Lahaye fiction.The rest would just be sacrilege against the Catholic Church by saying there was a sect of good vampires, and some of their practices occur due to the presence of the Sanguinists. Read this clearly, this does not meet the definition of sacrilege unless you are worshipping the Church instead of God.Angelfall, a YA book by Susan Ee, was much more sacrilegious. It stated that God wanted to get rid of man, so all the angels came down to do evil to them with a few exceptions. And keep in mind, this was a YA book. So in my opinion the Blood Gospel is not sacrilegious, my opinion.The characters were interesting. There really was someone there for almost every reader. Erin is a strong and smart woman. Jordan is a hero, who has a caring and sensitive side. Rhun is strong, despite his weaknesses.There is action, intrigue, romance and mystery. Admittedly, I did find the story to be slow going at times, but it quickly would pick up speed again.I can't wait for the next book. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Some good ideas....but *by M***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2013* A mysterious Vatican priest. A military forensics expert. A bright archaeologist. Three people with very different backgrounds who will be tasked to work together in order to find an ancient artifact: a lost gospel written by the hand of Christ Himself. But they're not the only ones looking for it. A secret sect consisting of both vampires and humans are looking for the book as well. Will the 'fabled three' find the book first and use it for good or will their enemies unleash horror on the world?The Blood Gospel has some interesting points. It ties heavily into history, especially that of the Catholic church and Christianity in general. It's obvious the team of Rollins and Cantrell did their research...and twisted what they found to make things interesting. A sect of the church consisting of vampires and the vampires who are set against them in opposition? The duo pull out many recognizable names from history to weave the tale.While the premise of the book had me thinking this would be a home run. While I do read some vampire fiction, the fact that Rollins was co-author of The Blood Gospel had me thinking it was going to be something special. I've never read anything by Rebecca Cantrell, I admit, so I'm not familiar with her work at all, but I'm a huge Rollins fan.This didn't seem like a book written by James Rollins. I'm not sure who had what part to play in the writing of this book but this lacked the usual Rollins 'voice'. The fast prose, the fantastic dialogue, the quick and frenetic pacing. The writing seemed, stiff and overly formal, from both a narrative and dialogue perspective. One of my biggest pet peeves when reading a novel is when there is a distinct lack of contractions, especially in dialogue. 'I do not know. I cannot do that. Why had you not told us that before?" For some of the older, ancient vampire type characters, that's fine. But Erin and Jordan constantly speak that way to the point where neither has a unique voice. And honestly, nobody speaks that way. This may seem like a minor point but it gave the characters a cardboard feel and lent a staccato rhythm to the narrative. While their back stories are fleshed out enough, the dialogue was painfully proper. Jordan doesn't suffer from this as much as Erin did, but still...it's there. Also, Jordan, being the military 'grunt' seems to be the comedy relief...but he's not very funny. They try to make him funny for purposes of breaking the tension (which is needed in any tense book) but it just feels flat.Also, the book seemed overly long. With the lack of any big 'WOW! Didn't see that coming!' moments, a long book can seem much longer than it actually is. Such is the case with The Blood Gospel. While the authors' twists on both religious dogma and historical facts seemed fresh, none of the plot seemed to be that much of a surprise. The 'big reveals' don't feel as epic as they should. Sometimes, even if you do know where a book is going, the joy is still in the journey, but for the reasons mentioned above (the overly stilted dialogue and narrative) the fun factor was ramped down a couple notches. Even the action sequences, a hallmark of any Rollins novel as fans well know, lack the spark that he's so well known for.Still, there were enough intriguing elements to keep me reading, even though at times I'd wondered when the book would actually end (it drags in many parts, especially between the climax and the end). Will I check out the next one? I'm leaning towards it because I'm curious to see what happens with several of the characters.All in all, not a 'bad' book, but a firm 'ok' book. As I mentioned, I'm not familiar with Cantrell's work. What little I do know of her leads me to believe that she's successful. Maybe this is like the 'supergroups' that crop up in the world of music from time to time: take some pieces from talented bands, toss them together, expect something fantastic. Those don't usually work all that well either and I think that may be the case here. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Class book *by G***T on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 16, 2022* I'm reading a lot and, good or bad, its sometimes fun to write reviews. Unfortunately almost every review I write is 1-3 stars. Either there are just a lot of bad books out there (I think I should be avoiding self published books a bit more) or I'm really bad at choosing books to read. So it's finally nice to read something that gets things right. This is a very well written book by two people who clearly know their profession. The plot is well structured and holds together (a failure of many books with a supernatural theme seems to be that the authors don't think it needs to be believable). Its a long book (700 pages I think) so you get your money's worth (could easily have been two books) but despite this it sets a fast pace with lots of action and maintains this from start to finish. It has many plot twists and the characters are decently developed.Nothing more off putting than when the main character annoys you (the army guy seems a bit wooden but the others are well drawn) but the authors know their business and its probably why they have three main characters. It would benefit from some more 'quirks' in the characters and a little more grit, two things that British writers seems to do much better than Americans. However, this is a minor quibble and the writers do a lot to avoid this just being a formula driven action romp. The bottom line is that this book is A-list. 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