timgonsalves's review
3.0
Lot of exciting locations, characters, and concepts happening in this one, although the plotting itself is a bit weak, and the end rather anti-climactic.
How Indy is it...
8/10 - It's more paleontology than archaeology naturally, but the bigger issue ends up being the sort of episodic nature of Indy's conflicts/villains, even while the story otherwise is largely linear. But McCoy keeps the pace and action up enough to make it still undeniably Indy.
How Indy is it...
8/10 - It's more paleontology than archaeology naturally, but the bigger issue ends up being the sort of episodic nature of Indy's conflicts/villains, even while the story otherwise is largely linear. But McCoy keeps the pace and action up enough to make it still undeniably Indy.
david_agranoff's review
3.0
Easy to be turned off by the title but this really is a pretty fun Indy tie in novel. Of the two I have read, think this one felt a little more like an Indy movie. That's all you're looking for right? A light read with the John williams score running in your head. Mission Accomplished.
verkisto's review
3.0
I keep labeling these books "fantasy", because they sure as heck aren't based in reality, but then the fantasy genre makes me think of dragons and unicorns (and, to be fair, unicorns HAVE featured in this series already). They're not urban fantasy, either, since they're globe-trotting adventures and not bound to one city or another. What would this genre be called, anyway? Fantasy-adventure? Adventure-fantasy? That brings to mind D&D novels.
Anyway.
These books have been entertaining (mostly; Martin Caidin's books were a bit of a chore), and McCoy does a good job of capturing the feel of an Indy adventure, but there were parts of the narrative that didn't make a lot of sense to me. At one point, one of the characters calls Indy "Marco Polo/Indiana Jones", and I couldn't figure out what that was supposed to mean. There wasn't any context in the surrounding paragraphs to explain it.
If there were one book I'd recommend to casual readers who want a fun Indy novel, this would be it. There are more ties to the movies in this book than I've seen in the preceding volumes.
Anyway.
These books have been entertaining (mostly; Martin Caidin's books were a bit of a chore), and McCoy does a good job of capturing the feel of an Indy adventure, but there were parts of the narrative that didn't make a lot of sense to me. At one point, one of the characters calls Indy "Marco Polo/Indiana Jones", and I couldn't figure out what that was supposed to mean. There wasn't any context in the surrounding paragraphs to explain it.
If there were one book I'd recommend to casual readers who want a fun Indy novel, this would be it. There are more ties to the movies in this book than I've seen in the preceding volumes.
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