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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
not sure why I put this book down six months ago, but it ended with a bang and I'm ready to tackle book 2.
This started out a little slow for me. I didn't care for the characters at first and honestly was losing interest. But something kept me going and then about a third of the way into the book, I couldn't put it down. Now looking forward to getting started on the rest of the series. Four stars only because of what I felt was a slow start.
The beginning of this book was great, and then the plot fizzled. By the middle the characters were not organized, and the end was not an end but a cliche cliff hanger. The second half of the book explains very little about the overall plot. For what information was gained from this book, many pages could have been cut out. I'm not going to read the next one. I feel like I wasted my time.
A good start
This is a kind of Thriller mystery. It's an archaeology book that something of a genre that I like and I found and I've read. The author has developed a couple of characters that seem to be traveling an awful lot. There's also a lot of death in this book from people that they've known quite well. My opinion is that the book is good but could be better I'm going to read the second novel and see what happens.
This is a kind of Thriller mystery. It's an archaeology book that something of a genre that I like and I found and I've read. The author has developed a couple of characters that seem to be traveling an awful lot. There's also a lot of death in this book from people that they've known quite well. My opinion is that the book is good but could be better I'm going to read the second novel and see what happens.
Great idea, liked the characters and plot, but it took too long to get going and didn't hold my attention well.
I did not like this book, I couldn't even finish it. I know this is fiction, but the year he says the item is from doesn't seem plausible based on everything archaeologists have learned so far. I couldn't hold my disbelief.
I found this one tended to be all over the place. It seems that beyond the main story line, there wasn't much investment in the supporting characters, and stuff just seemed to happen to them. Add into this mix a couple of fanatical religious assassins and the story just didn't flow very well.
An interesting start to a series. I think I may finish it. I liked that the book takes part in places in New Mexico.
There are a couple reasons why I gave this book a 1-star rating.
This first is because other than words on the page (er, screen, since I read this as an ebook), this reads like a bad first draft from a new author, and it really isn't a story. Sure, there is a beginning, but there is no climax or end. It just kind of hovers on a (bad) chase scene for 260 pages. There are no ups and downs, there is no climax, and there certainly is no wrap-up or ending.
Second is the characters... They are all so one-dimensional. There is nothing about any of them that makes you want to like them let alone understand why they are doing what they are doing. There's no justification for the entire novel either, because why Rip does what he does in the very first few chapters is still as clear as mud by the end. And the so-called black-ops-type characters chasing after these 'good guys'? By the end of the book it felt like I had the soundtrack of Benny Hill playing in the background, or was reading a Mr. Bean script.
And one final word on the actual writing. Why I said earlier it read like a first draft of a first novel is because it became very apparent early on in the book that if there was dialog, the author had no idea how to intersperse it with description, and when there were long tracts of description, there was no dialog. Not once in the book were the two parts of writing interwoven. Not even a little bit. We'd have entire chapters (well, considering, the longest chapter in the whole book was, I think, 13 kobo screens long, I'd hesitate to even call them chapters) of description, then entire chapters of ONLY dialog. And not only that, but there was very few attributions to that dialog. It's almost as if someone had told the author that said was a four letter word and should be avoided.
Oh, and the PoV shifting... I hate it when we are blasted by shit that the PoV character could never know because it's all going on in another character's head.
All in all, a very poor book, and one in which I probably will not finish the series. Thank goodness I got this as a free book from Kobo and didn't pay actual money for it. I might have demanded a refund.
This first is because other than words on the page (er, screen, since I read this as an ebook), this reads like a bad first draft from a new author, and it really isn't a story. Sure, there is a beginning, but there is no climax or end. It just kind of hovers on a (bad) chase scene for 260 pages. There are no ups and downs, there is no climax, and there certainly is no wrap-up or ending.
Second is the characters... They are all so one-dimensional. There is nothing about any of them that makes you want to like them let alone understand why they are doing what they are doing. There's no justification for the entire novel either, because why Rip does what he does in the very first few chapters is still as clear as mud by the end. And the so-called black-ops-type characters chasing after these 'good guys'? By the end of the book it felt like I had the soundtrack of Benny Hill playing in the background, or was reading a Mr. Bean script.
And one final word on the actual writing. Why I said earlier it read like a first draft of a first novel is because it became very apparent early on in the book that if there was dialog, the author had no idea how to intersperse it with description, and when there were long tracts of description, there was no dialog. Not once in the book were the two parts of writing interwoven. Not even a little bit. We'd have entire chapters (well, considering, the longest chapter in the whole book was, I think, 13 kobo screens long, I'd hesitate to even call them chapters) of description, then entire chapters of ONLY dialog. And not only that, but there was very few attributions to that dialog. It's almost as if someone had told the author that said was a four letter word and should be avoided.
Oh, and the PoV shifting... I hate it when we are blasted by shit that the PoV character could never know because it's all going on in another character's head.
All in all, a very poor book, and one in which I probably will not finish the series. Thank goodness I got this as a free book from Kobo and didn't pay actual money for it. I might have demanded a refund.