![]() ![]() ![]() When the pandemic arrived, it thus became the perfect opportunity for the global predators to double down on their authoritarian agenda.ĭr. Trump exposed the globalists to the light of day. Breggin observes that Americans are the freest people in history, yet our freedom, heritage, and accomplishments have no importance in the minds of the new global leadership.Ī major theme of the book is that President Trump’s America First policies deeply threatened the globalist predators and their agenda. New York billionaire and former New York Mayor Michael Bloombergīreggin concludes: "To say that Bloomberg is in a league with the Chinese Communist Party is no exaggeration."Īmerica is under immediate threat. In 2006, Warren Buffet pledged most of his fortune to the Gates Foundation, donating 10 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), worth approximately $31 billion.īreggin writes that he mistakenly saw Soros as a loner until July, 2021, when it was revealed that Soros had partnered with Gates and others in a consortium to buy a company that makes COVID-19 tests. I wish we didn’t have to fight about them. Tomorrow we’ll need negative COVID tests to travel between countries. They are the not-so-thin edge of the wedge. mask mandates appear to be an effort by governments to find out what restrictions on their civil liberties people will accept on the thinnest possible evidence. I may regret it didn't delve deeper in some political or social aspects but I really enjoyed reading it and I would definitely recommend it to whoever is looking for a diverse novel full of action and inventive creations. The Prey of Gods was a very entertaining novel, filled with wonderfully imaginative ideas and very competently written. The gods and goddesses are a bit more one dimensional, but they incarnate fully hybris or morality. Nonetheless, even if it was frustrating it didn't deter much my enjoyment of the story, filled with characters who all bring a different voice to their stories of self discovery and empowerment, whether it is to understand what it is to be a man, or to be the woman you've always been even if you were born a man, or to accept pain as a part of you when you suffer from a grave illness. It was, as I said, frustrating, because it felt, in the end, like a blockbuster novel to me: lots of action, hints here and there at some deeper issues, but let's not put them in the way of a good fight scene (. And yet, somehow, class and race issues, that could be wonderfully explored in such a context, are barely touched upon. The novel is full of action: it is often gripping, the rhythm is sustained throughout its 300+ pages, and it's not repetitive, going from a very well done katàbasis to an epic fight with a mecha versus a semi-goddess, to say nothing of rampage scenes in the streets of Pretoria.īut I somehow felt that Drayden barely brushed on some aspects that the novel really had the potential for: Nomvula comes from a township (and it seems in the future, the situation for townships inhabitants isn't much better), the AIs are enslaved to humans, we are in South Africa. ![]() Or at least, it was to me, considering my tastes. In a sense, The Prey of Gods has learnt from American Gods, but in setting it in the near future, Drayden can add a scifi touch that is completely part of the story and that never feels stuck on it like an old bit of sellotape.īut, in a sense, The Prey of Gods can also be frustrating. But we are in a world where ancient powers still linger: demi-gods or goddesses are still around and can still get some power out of belief or fear. We are in a near future where our computers are bots faithfully following us everywhere on their eight legs some laboratories can manipulate DNA and create viruses or chimeras. One of the most striking element in The Prey of Gods is how well Nicky Drayden blends scifi and fantasy. The Prey of Gods follows five main characters in their lives in South Africa: Muzi, a mixed race teenage boy who is attracted to his best friend Elkin and who tries to lives up to his grand-father's expectations Nomvula, a little girl living in a township and whose mother is depressive Sidney, who works in a beauty salon but who is a demi-goddess and has the power to manipulate things and minds Wallace Stoker, a politician who also leads a double life as Felicity Lyons, an aspiring singer Riya Natrajan, a famous singer who secretly suffers from multiple sclerosis. ![]()
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