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Galilee by: Clive Barker

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Rating: - This book is everything you need from Clive Barker. Intense

Clive Barker once again invites us into his world. A world where nothing is plain and everything has consequences deeper than is at first apparent. Like an onion skin, the pages peel back the plot revealling with each turn a new plot or connection,drawing you deeper into the timeless story of the war between the capitalist Gearys and the spiritual, godlike Barabus family and the Geary women trapped between them. The intrigues that go back over three centuries of both mortal and immortal life will keep you turning the pages and leave you aching for more of the same. I found myself resenting sleep each evening, until the book was finished and I was left to wait disconsolate for the next Clive Barker opus!

Rating: - A slight change from your usual Barker

I liked this novel a great deal. It draws you in slowly but surely and then, before you know it Barker has his meat hooks in you again!! I would say that its not your typical Barker, If your looking for the Damnation game part2 then this book it is not. Galilee is in more the same vein as 'Weaveworld' but then thats a bad comparison because it really is out there on its own when compared to any other of Clives work. I liked the way the story is written (as always) clives creativity shines through and some paragraphs just glow with his style and panash.....okay okay! He is the master. Just buy the book will ya!!!!

Rating: - Superb!!!

This is an excellent novel you really fall in love with some of the charecters and at the end of the book it has you gagging for the sequel.

Rating: - Sucks you in and doesn't let you go !

I'm responsible, I have a job, family, fiancee and a thousand commitments... all completely neglected and forgotten.

Barker had me hooked years ago with Dreamworld and nothing changes. Maybe its lucky he isn't more prolific or I may not have had the time to write this..

Rating: - Magnificent Return of the Master Fabulist!

This novel sees Clive Barker doing what he does best: telling a well-plotted story with masterful verve.

The fantasy takes more of a back seat here than in his previous work as we delve into the world of the Geary's and the Barbarossa's. The focus is primarily on the earthly Geary's and their empire of wealth and power. It all starts to go awry when Rachel, a small-town girl, falls in love with the rich Mitchell Geary.

But things aren't so simple. As ever with Barker you never really know what to expect, the same is true here with 'Galilee'. For no sooner has Rachel married Mitchell, she meets and falls in love with Galilee Barbarossa, whose history has been inextricably linked with the Geary's (and especially the Geary women) throughout the decades. This love affair signifies the Geary clan beginning to tear itself apart and the old rivalries between Geary and Barbarossa are drawn into the open once again.

Barker has pulled out all the stops in this the first installment of a two-part series. There is wit, warmth and strangeness in abundance in this wonderous book.

All the familiar Barker characteristics are present in this absorbing book, and some unusual ones too. Barker has broken into newer territory here with the epic family saga, and this is a very good thing. Whereas 'Sacrament' seemed to be treading over all too-familiar ground, Barker here changes his style and content sufficiently to engage the reader (and also to impress this reader enough to write this review!) in what will hopefully be a very successful series. I just hope the wait isn't too long.... because if what is merely hinted at here is carried through to the next volume then it will simply be one of the finest feats of imaginative fiction.

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