Le sei pietre sacre

Action! Adventure! Honestly, I don't usually go in for this kind of novel unless pressured by friends or I am just watching some SF adventure, but I can see the appeal. More than that, even. The pacing is always great and while it's not *exactly* a serial adventure right out of the 30's, it has all t Leggi tutto

4.5!

Re-Read 07/20 Goddammit. (view spoiler) [I forgot this was a cliffhanger. (hide spoiler)] The story leads on a little from the first book in the series, with new events loosely related to things that occurred previously, featuring most of the characters we fell in love with in the previous novel. Not all of them, you understand, beca Leggi tutto

This was lent to me by a friend, so I did try my best to enjoy it. But this kind of action-adventure-movie transformed into a book just isn't really my thing. Not only the increasingly ridiculous situations the characters find themselves in - "Block of stone about to fall and crush me? I will block

Okay people, it’s time to suspend your disbelief here at the door, you’re now entering the world of Matthew Reilly. Hang on to the handrails because it’s a wild and bumpy ride! If you’ve read any Reilly books in the past you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about and The Six Sacred Stones, the second Leggi tutto

Whenever I read a review for a Matthew Reilly book I am immediately putting the reviews into one of two categories. Category G - they got it. Category M - missed the point. Reilly is one of the best at writing books that could be an action movie directed by Bay or Bruckheimer. They are meant to be a Leggi tutto

Matthew Reilly's writing is the written equivalent of someone showing you something, then bringing it so close to your face so as to almost hit you, repeatedly. I don't understand why he thinks his audience is so stupid. Literally every page has about 4 or 5 words that are italicised; he often re-de Leggi tutto

The second adventure in this series is all about doing the exact same things that made book one so good, just on a bigger, more epic scale. And in that, it does deliver. It’s an action-packed treasure hunting extravaganza. It does end in a massive cliffhanger though.