Book Review The Resurrection and the Life by Brian Keene

The leather clad book filled with mystisizm before you even read it..."The Resurrection and the Life is a must read for anyone who enjoyed The Rising and City of the Dead', writes Horror World Reviews.
Well I haven't read The Rising or City of the dead yet, so I am off to a good start - beginning at the beginning. The book itself is only 47 pages long; the edition of The Resurrection is limited to 250 numbered copies and a special edition of 52 lettered copies(guess which one I've got?), all signed by the Author, Brian Keene, the artist, George Walker, and the OB himself -- that's right, there's a bloody fingerprint (or should I say "clawprint") of Ob at the very bottom of the page! You can order your copy through bitingdogpress.com.
First of all it reads very easily, you are virtually gliding through each page, and it feels like you are there at ancient times. The writing is not pretentious or overly descriptive; rather it's written in a voice of a witness, "this is how it happened".
Since I am religious I was wary to read something fictional about Jesus; I was ready for the usual exploits: a joke, a shock, the graphic violence of it, something about Mary Magdalene or unheard children. I was relieved to find nothing of the sort - in fact, Keene doesn't change the story of what I already know, that he loved Lazarus, Mary and Martha, that he knew of his fate and prayed before meeting it...And then the unquestionable fact that he resurrected Lazarus and how he did it. It just somehow makes sense that the living trying to mess with the world of dead end up in a mess...Am I making sense? When Jesus does this holy act he entrusts this act unto God; but how did it really happened? Did God speak to people back then? And other, very interesting, mind and soul tickling questions we find answered in this book, and end up with a longing to learn more...A sort of a book that any book should be: inspiring and calling...Dangling palpitating mystery like an anglerfish before my hungry mind: Like why did Judas really betray Jesus? Not just for 33 silver cents of course, but there must have been something more to it...And I am not buying the story they threw at us on TV that Jesus simply asked him to be betrayed...It had to be something deeper, a real reason, for I believe that Judas must have loved his teacher wholeheartedly...Was he secretly gay? Did he have life insurance on him? Then - what? In this book, an answer is simple and logic and obvious...
That's why this book is such a deliciously taunting treat.