Kevin Walker @walker_kev79395 - Twitter Profile

Just read the first book. I believe McBeth missed a real opportunity to sell a whole lot of books. If he had only played on the world wide curiosity about the LDS. The whole Desseret characterization was a total strikeout. (Clancy did a nice job in his books characterizing the LDS and the Catholics cultures in the FBI.) It needed more consideration of the leadership of the LDS church (who would be the de facto leadership of Desseret). Research would have shown how savvy these men and women are. They were leaders of industry before becoming full time church leaders. They embrace technology and lead its development. Just take a five minute drive through the Silicon Slopes. Entrepreneurship is legendary and frugal beyond measure. A modern day Desseret would be a world leading economic force, not some vanilla backwater of folks who still spoke like 5 generations ago. (Did people really say “shall” instead of will that much?) and the worn out anti women rhetoric? Really? A woman scientist is surprising? Go talk to one of their Relief Society presidents! And don’t forget the LDS church’s war chest of hundreds of billions of dollars, no debt and it’s just a church not a country. Those people have a pretty good sense on how to get stuff done. The main character being LDS would have been an excellent opportunity to illustrate the burdens of being LDS and tie in the awful history between the LDS and state and federal governments. That is some rich history with extermination orders and the only church kicked out of the US - it would have helped build the drama between the countries. What a truly missed opportunity. While generally conservative religiously and fiscally, the social aspects of the people are split about 50/50. Another missed opportunity. If an author wants to win, truly win, at writing books, go look at how David McCullough did it. He was a master. This book could have been EPIC! I will pass on the next one.

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