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caylabcba's review against another edition
3.0
I did enjoy the book a bit. There were some parts that were slow. The one thing I had a big issue with was the ending. The ending was anticlimactic. There was this huge build up for the ending and I was all for it and then just…it felt like it ended too abruptly. I closed the book and was like “uhhh what?”
timgonsalves's review
2.5
Can't blame McGregor after writing six books within the span of two years, but here finds him giving his weakest effort, a story that starts strong (pirates on a ghost ship! hollow earth!) but quickly stalls out with repetitive passages that rely on tropes we've seen enough from the writer at this point (dreams that are actually real, wandering aimlessly through caves and mountains, etc).
How Indy is it...
6/10 - It's definitely a globe-trotting adventure (doubly so), but there's so many mystical and supernatural elements that by the end we've fully entered the world of outright fantasy.
How Indy is it...
6/10 - It's definitely a globe-trotting adventure (doubly so), but there's so many mystical and supernatural elements that by the end we've fully entered the world of outright fantasy.
scostner's review
2.0
A friend introduced me to this series when I lived in Fayetteville, NC. The local Walden Books ahd a section they called "Men's Adventure" books and these were shelved there. I enjoyed the seris up until this one, then sort of lost interest because the story just did not captivate me at all.
verkisto's review against another edition
3.0
This book is probably more like 2.5 stars, but I rounded up because it wasn't terrible; it just ended suddenly, and left too many plot points unresolved.
Like the first book in the series, the bulk of the story was fun and full of adventure, but the ending was disappointing. MacGregor is still building off of the earlier books in the series as he goes, which is interesting, but it's not like there's an overarching story here that he's telling; he's just using details from previous books to help with the plots of the later books.
(Which, now that I think about it, is a little like cheating, especially here, where it acts a bit like a deus ex machina.)
One thing I've enjoyed about these books, though, is how MacGregor uses real places, real mythology, real history, and real culture when he writes these stories. I've been fact-checking some of the things he's used in building his plots, and they all check out. The author bio in the back of the book mentions that he's well-traveled, and I like that he's using some of that in his stories.
Like the first book in the series, the bulk of the story was fun and full of adventure, but the ending was disappointing. MacGregor is still building off of the earlier books in the series as he goes, which is interesting, but it's not like there's an overarching story here that he's telling; he's just using details from previous books to help with the plots of the later books.
(Which, now that I think about it, is a little like cheating, especially here, where it acts a bit like a deus ex machina.)
One thing I've enjoyed about these books, though, is how MacGregor uses real places, real mythology, real history, and real culture when he writes these stories. I've been fact-checking some of the things he's used in building his plots, and they all check out. The author bio in the back of the book mentions that he's well-traveled, and I like that he's using some of that in his stories.
verkisto's review
2.0
Man. This book is all over the place. It's not hard to follow, narratively, but it's hard to follow in the whole "How does this make any sense?" kind of thing. All of the Indiana Jones movies have a supernatural angle to them, but this one takes it to a new level, and the explanation at the end is ... well, it's weak sauce.
To his credit, MacGregor kinda-sorta ties in the previous five books to make them one larger story, but only in the simplest terms. It's not like we have puzzle pieces that all fit together at the end of the story; instead, we see that there was a significance to all the other locations in the previous books that are important to this story. It's not ground-breaking, and it doesn't suggest that this was MacGregor's plan from the start (it feels like anything could have been retconned to fit that part of the story), but it's something.
This was MacGregor's last book in this series. I'm interested in seeing what another author can do with this license.
To his credit, MacGregor kinda-sorta ties in the previous five books to make them one larger story, but only in the simplest terms. It's not like we have puzzle pieces that all fit together at the end of the story; instead, we see that there was a significance to all the other locations in the previous books that are important to this story. It's not ground-breaking, and it doesn't suggest that this was MacGregor's plan from the start (it feels like anything could have been retconned to fit that part of the story), but it's something.
This was MacGregor's last book in this series. I'm interested in seeing what another author can do with this license.
birdmanseven's review
2.0
Not a fan. Indy felt more like a passenger in this low stakes adventure.
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