A review by organchordsandlightning
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston
4.0
RIP Bill Smithback, totally thought you were going back at the end as one final twist. It felt almost surreal that they took out a character that was there from Book 1 - but honestly, the differences between Margo Green and Nora Kelly are so small that it felt like having the whole gang back together again anyway.
A pretty strong entry in the Pendergast series; I always prefer when we're back in New York. There were some Reliquary vibes with the protests, and I have to say that I liked what I thought was a throw-away gag (ooo, look at the so-called vegan eating lamb!) ended up being the crux of the issue.
Sometimes it's hard to say that there are things I dislike about specific books in the Pendergast series, because to a degree you get to a point while reading that I just end up taking the book in stride. There were two things that stuck out: poor Nora Kelly gets attacked in almost every chapter she's in (except the chapter where she gets kidnapped!), and it was so funny to me that after the last book - where, if we'll all recall, evil smoke monster comes out of an evil mandala and turns people evil - the takeaway point for this novel was 'don't be nuts. They're not ACTUAL zombies. Don't be silly'. Evil ghost monster? Fine. Zombies as we understand them? Too far.
A pretty strong entry in the Pendergast series; I always prefer when we're back in New York. There were some Reliquary vibes with the protests, and I have to say that I liked what I thought was a throw-away gag (ooo, look at the so-called vegan eating lamb!) ended up being the crux of the issue.
Sometimes it's hard to say that there are things I dislike about specific books in the Pendergast series, because to a degree you get to a point while reading that I just end up taking the book in stride. There were two things that stuck out: poor Nora Kelly gets attacked in almost every chapter she's in (except the chapter where she gets kidnapped!), and it was so funny to me that after the last book - where, if we'll all recall, evil smoke monster comes out of an evil mandala and turns people evil - the takeaway point for this novel was 'don't be nuts. They're not ACTUAL zombies. Don't be silly'. Evil ghost monster? Fine. Zombies as we understand them? Too far.