Dwellers

[guardianlunnaei]

Um....minor spoilers if anyone plans on reading the book named in the subject? And possible typo demons 'cause I'm at work and on the phone and so not going to read over this to make sure everything is okay...^,^;;

 

That...was a rather odd and disappointing ending to a rather odd and interesting book. >,o

 

Been reading a book called “Dwellers” by Roger Elwood.  It’s a Christian Fiction and it’s written in a really odd style.  I mean...in any given scene there really isn’t much of a “POV”, though most of it seems to be told....about a man named Matthew Kindred.  The narrative is....well....just that essentially.  It’s a narrative.  There’s times in a scene where something will be going on and suddenly with a simple sentence like: ““How many are left?” He would later ask the Dweller who identified himself as Zurth.”  (And yes...that /is/ a direct quote from the book.)  So one moment the man is talking to his son, we have that line above and we go right into the covo with the Dweller.  Again, it’s just a really odd writing style. 

 

But I can forgive it that, it was an interesting book, really was.  Early in Genesis there is a mention of a race known as the “Nephilim”.  It is believed that Goliath, from the famed story of a shepherd boy who faced a giant, was one of the Nephilim.  The Nephilim in the Bible are said to be the offspring of demons that raped and/or seduced human women.  I remember hearing that the Nephilim were all giants and usually had at least minor deformities like extra fingers or toes.  *waves a hand*  But that’s me getting carried away with trivial things that my brain tends to hang onto.

 

Anyway, this book takes the concept of the Nephilim, the idea that the Earth is really hundreds of millions of years old as scientists claim, and tosses an unlikely man into the mix of it.  The Dwellers are a race that live in cave systems deep in the Earth.  They have been around from the beginning and certain members of each little group have passed memories on from the time of creation to present.  (Some with memories of creation, memories of different biblical events, some with memories of Atlantis and when and how if fell, etc, etc.).  So due to some different events this human ends up in their midst experiencing their world (even meeting the Loch Ness Monster and swimming to the location of Atlantis (which is in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle of course, explains why no one’s been able to find it. =D), and then going back to his world with a couple to see if they can develop some friendly relations above ground so the Dwellers no longer have to live in the dank, oppressive caverns underground.

 

Quiet frankly all hell breaks loose and these once passive, and naively trusting creatures/people find out just how hellish humans can be...and they finally retaliate to defend themselves.  One in particular just /snaps/ and rallies other Dwellers to strike back.  They start to poison the earth with the very things that humans have been storing underground (i.e. nuclear weapons and waste, toxic dump, etc).  Matthew is seen as a trusted friend and even as the Dwellers try to wipe out humans so that they can take over the world above Matthew is still seen as a trusted friend and welcomed with open arms.  He’s able to talk some sense into them (after all...they’re poisoning the world that they share with humans, and killing themselves as much as their killing their “enemies”.  So some semblance of peace is restored, but there are still a lot of problems over the next couple years.

 

Honestly...though....it just.../ends/....seems like it’s going somewhere and then jumps into the epilogue that....almost seems to not fit with the rest of the book. >,o.  I dunno...maybe it was one of the two talking at the end that was telling the whole story?  A speculative discussion between philosopher and student?  Guess that could be it, but....but still...the end just feels so....disjointed.  I don’t really feel like I’ve finished the book and that kind of bothers me. 

 

Okay...M’done... *makes sure to grab her Body Trauma book for lunch time reading...*  .....Hmmm...I’ll be reading medical trauma while eating....great....^,^;;;