2012: The War for Souls
December 21, 2012, may be one of the most watched dates in history. Every 26,000 years, Earth lines up with the exact center of our galaxy. At 11:11 on December 21, 2012, this event happens again, and the ancient Maya calculated that it would mark the end, not only of this age, but of human consciousness as we know it. But what will actually happen? The end of the world? A new age for mankind? Nothing? The last time this happened, Cro-Magnon man suddenly began creating great art in the caves of southern France, which to this day remains one of the most inexplicable changes in human history. Now Whitley Strieber explores 2012 in a towering work of fiction that will astound readers with its truly new insights and a riveting roller-coaster ride of a story. A mysterious alien presence unexpectedly bursts out of sacred sites all over the world and begins to rip human souls from their bodies, plunging the world into chaos it has never before known. Courage meets cowardice, loyalty meets betrayal as an entire world struggles to survive this incredible end-all war. Heroes emerge, villains reveal themselves, and in the end something completely new and unexpected happens that at once lifts the fictional characters into a new life, and sounds a haunting real-world warning for the future.
2012: The War for Souls Accessories
 Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA
The Grays
The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return (The Earth Chronicles)
The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities
The Keepers
Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction
Communion: A True Story
Hidden Truth: Forbidden Knowledge
The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics and Ancient Texts
Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up
2012: The War for Souls Reviews
This book started off well. I think somewhere along the line the author forgot he was telling a story and started believing he was living this and reporting it. Then it started to become tedious and fall apart. The action flew and the characters were interesting. Anyways the last 1/3 of the book was painful to read and the plot just fell apart:(
He used to be exciting. No further comment is needed. This book is silly and stupid. Now he is excited.
I thought this one was going to be as interesting as Greys, but wasn't, and didn't even follow the Greys storyline. Toward the end it was fairly interesting about Abaddon and how it has influenced world Judeo-Christian mythology, but I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. I've enjoyed most of Strieber's other works but this one wasn't very good. It was poorly written in a very slapdash manner; it seems like his writing abilities are slipping with every new book. He's totally flipped out about what the "aliens" are or aren't, why they're here if they are, etc. If I want to read really badly written "alternate-reality universes" stuff, I'd read Harry Turtledove.
The plotline is interesting enough, if quite convoluted, and the action is pretty entertaining. Someone should advise Whitley Strieber that it's okay to write several novels if you have a whole bunch of different ideas. This ancient mystery becomes a springboard for a careening story that is continuously on the verge of either flying apart at the seams or collapsing under its own weight. Surely, Strieber gets points for ambition and for thinking big. The book is obscurely inspired by the new age speculation surrounding the Maya calendar and why it suddenly stops on December 21, 2012.
But Strieber keeps mucking up what could have been a lean-and-mean story. [~doomsdayer520~] But "2012" might also be fulfilling for lazier readers who want to see aliens, zombies, ancient prophecies, cannibals, Atlantis, alternate universes, historical mysteries, rapturism, political conspiracies, and family values all in one jam-packed volume. We have clunky political commentary, inconsistent characters who abruptly learn new skills and change personalities when the action demands, and half-baked religious symbolism straight from the school of Left Behind, polished off with weak themes about faith and family that derail the steamrolling action into a sappy anticlimax. It's as if Strieber attempted to write a blockbuster epic for the religious, sci-fi, horror, new age, and action movie markets all at once, but none of those audiences are likely to be fully satisfied.
The result is a clumsy mess that fails to live up to about ten categories of potential. Granted, the book is usually entertaining and you're likely to stick with it until the end, but then you'll find how the story keeps defeating itself. This book manages to get readers interested but then makes them say either "oh come on." or "huh." constantly as the story becomes a lumbering Frankenstein of rickety subplots and poorly digested themes.
You have disappointed me yet again, Mr. I took the bait and purchased and downloaded the book to my Kindle. At that point I completely lost interest in the story and I stopped caring about whether the characters lived, died, or got their souls sucked out by the aliens. I had recently visited the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico y I heard the storied told around the year 2012. I downloaded and read the intro to this book for my Amazon.com Kindle and I have to admit that its premise intrigued me. Immediately right after the preview I've already read, the story began to jump back and forth between "planes of existence" and after reading it for a while it became confusing. Strieber.
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