The Midwest Book Review is coming out with a new review for Ghost of the Gods in April 2026… April is turning out to be a great month. Not only is this review coming out, but so is an equally wonderful review of Immortality.
Excerpt:
The attractive force of Ghost of the Gods doesn’t just have its roots in Immortality – it builds upon them in unexpected, original ways that readers will find completely engrossing and speculatively, intellectually, delightfully challenging.” – Midwest Book Review, D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer.
Full Review:
Because Ghost of the Gods is a sequel to events that evolved in Kevin Bohacz’s Immortality, it’s highly recommended that readers hold prior familiarity with the doomsday scenario that plays out in the first book before adding Ghost of the Gods to their reading lists.
This story begins two years after the extinction events of Immortality. Scientist Mark Freedman and policewoman Sarah Mayfair continue to probe the possibilities of what it takes and means to be transhuman in an altered political milieu of repression and control.
From the “god machine” (AI) which oversaw destruction to the social, political, and philosophical clashes between those who would employ nanotech hybrids to become something more and others who would repress what remains of the human soul, Ghost of the Gods expands the story’s initial themes in a supernova of confrontation, conflict, and altered states of realization.
On the one hand, readers of Ghost of the Gods will find the intersection of high technology and thriller to be thoroughly engrossing. Conversely, those more attracted to moral, ethical, and philosophical quandaries will especially appreciate elements of all three which weave deftly into the processes and powers that support the action and transformations within.
Compelling situations inject a spiritual component into the mix as Mark and Sarah face their overlords and their own intersecting lives:
They both knew the guide was monitoring their intimate exchange, but neither cared. Sarah’s memories were fragmented and matched his. Mark had no idea what to do to save them—and accepted the guide knew that too. There was no escape from this spiritual death camp. Deep in his heart he understood that he and Sarah were saying good-bye. Who they were, their very essence, would soon be subsumed by the guide. They were going to evolve, but in a horrible direction neither could have ever imagined.
The result, even more so than Immortality, takes readers in unexpected directions in a leap of faith and scientific transformation that few will see coming from the events in the prior novel.
Librarians will find that prior readers of Kevin Bohacz will be attracted to Ghost of the Gods, considering it enlightening, revealing, startling reading. This will lend nicely to book clubs – but only if the two books are considered together.
The attractive force of Ghost of the Gods doesn’t just have its roots in Immortality – it builds upon them in unexpected, original ways that readers will find completely engrossing and speculatively, intellectually, delightfully challenging.
