Review: The Breath of God

Jeffrey Small's debut novel, The Breath of God , was heralded as a "novel of suspense" and likened to the work of popular novelist Dan Brown. I was very excited and couldn't wait to crack the spine. Once I got in, however, I found a far different book than I anticipated — and not as enjoyable. Grant Matthews encounters a 2,000-year-old text that reveals what Jesus Christ did during his two decades of action accounted for in the Holy Bible. Before he can unpack his bags, a Southern preacher with ambition decides to debunk Matthews' prematurely and unintentionally published revelations. However, technology fails him and he must travel east again to find the original documents, following Kinley and the surreptitious clues he leaves with a few different people around the world. Only he's not alone, and this self-proclaimed "servant of God" will stop at nothing to protect his religion — and his church. Of course, Small threw in a brilliant teache...