Millennium Babe: The Prophecy

Millennium Babe: The Prophecy
by Betty Dravis

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Author: Betty Dravis
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-12-07
ISBN: 0738845108
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

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Book Review: Fables & Foibles. Evil Beware! The Purest Power is on its way. All Rise. Sun's Up.
Summary: 5 Stars

Can satire be warm and light, romantic, too? Yes. Can satire make you chuckle with smiles in your heart? Yes.

For examples, look at ROBIN WILLIAMS movies, and at the ALLY McBEAL series. See also, MILLENNIUM BABE, THE PROPHECY. Can satire make a viewer/reader nervous, causing him to push further into the cushions of an easy chair, to curl up to get further away from outside edges, horrified by dangers creeping up on favorite characters? Yes. We already know satire can make readers sneer at villains, but usually every cool body in satire is repulsive; no cozy heroes are available for "living with" in the story.

Warm bodies of Heroes do walk these pages, as Dravis says, "warts and all."

Who would have guessed warts could be cute, endearing even.

On the romantic end, for me it was refreshing to read about a couple's romantic style holding sex at bay until after marriage. Even in this Age, and with my personal views more open than Bitsy's, the romance was just as entertaining, actually more so, with that delay. Who knew? Probably, not many of us. Not that I agree with all the theologies and philosophies in this novel, but I can enjoy a different point of view when it's dramatized with warm, light humor.

I think what I liked best about this novel was that it was light-spirited, containing a childlike quality in an adult novel (amazing this, from an author in her 70's!), a youthful love of storytelling, romance, adventure, and intrigue. The style, characterizations, and plot were unique to this author, not to be found elsewhere in anything I've read, other than novels and Amazon Shorts available from Betty Dravis, all of which I've reviewed. It's not surprising that Dravis has slowly and deservedly developed a fan base among quality Amazon Reviewers and other authors, seasoned in their own rights and products.

What I enjoyed most in the novel's plot was that it kept me wanting to see how each snarl would be released or handled, knowing that the resolutions would not be "tried & true"; they'd be untried and untrue to anything "same ole."

Yet, as is true to life, the characters each had habits and speech patterns (including warts and beauty marks) which were endearingly repeated, and came to be anticipated. Even though these patterns reflect reality, they might be felt by some readers as being repetitious. For me, the Prophet's "What the hey" refrain worked itself into a warm, welcome, "Hello."

Though each of the 6 literary offerings by Dravis (available on Amazon) was a rare gem, each work was different in style and genre. If I were to determine my favorite, it would definitely be MILLENNIUM BABE. It left me ... wondering ... in the most pleasant of ways.

A sequel is as essential as Day following Night.

As you read this novel, maybe ask yourself why the author may have delayed writing a sequel. Does it have to do with the Stars? (of Bethlehem or in astrology?) How/why does any author decide where to go for a next project. Might Dravis write a nonfiction Amazon Short to shine her own brand of sunlight on her reasons, as she sees them?

This is a fascinating story, flawless in its carrying forward of an exciting plot, in its dramatization of an engrossing theme, and in the beauty and intrigue of its surprising conclusions. Todd Burger was right about readers not being able to predict the ending. Ditto also to his concluding question, "Why not, Betty?" (Why hasn't she written a sequel yet.)

I'm left wondering about parallel themes. Maybe Life has many Stories ...

Babies born on 1/1/2001 would now be 6 years old.

Might a child (or many children) have been born prior to the opening of The Third Millennium, children who would have matured to age to be working in the world today, as seasoned adults? What of the large group of cultural "soldiers" in the Baby Boomer generation, who are now in their late 50's? Might stalwart souls have been born at various times, giving assistance from various generations?

Our calendars are based on human machinations, more than on those of the heavens or of astronomical patterns of the Universe's Time-clock. Third Millennium workers could have been born on many dates on our calendars.

Will we, as adult humans, grow up one day into a mature species of sentience? I believe so.

MILLENNIUM BABE, THE PROPHECY will definitely start readers thinking, and hoping, maybe each in his own directions based on personal belief systems. I would hope that, once a person gets started in that direction of pure thinking, he won't halt the brain shaking.

This story is very good fiction. It opens the mind to realize that there are many ways in which "heavenly" help might come to play in a new age.

Linda Shelnutt
Straight on until morning - Peter Pan to Tinker Bell

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Summary of Millennium Babe: The Prophecy

World chaos erupts when David Wetterman--a popular Silicon Valley weatherman--makes a startling prophecy about the first baby to be born on January 1, 2001: Countries fight over "The Millennium Babe"; expectant mothers are terrified; abortion rates accelerate. "The Prophet" becomes an international celebrity, forced into hiding when some VIPs threaten his life. With his remarkable TV director, Bitsy Blodgett, by his side, the apocalyptic countdown to the third millennium begins.

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