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A review by rosin1
The Lost Temple by Tom Harper
2.0
Better than expected, but honestly I also had very low expectations. 2.5 starts maybe? Honestly books like these are a perfect example of why I mostly don't read male authors.
There is literally one woman in it, she is very much "not like other women", because she's a badass, who fought the Nazis, and she's definitely only in the book to look pretty, make Grant vulnerable because they're sleeping together, and to be the one everyone else can agree is suspicious.
Everything remotely related to women is extremely over sexualized and mystified, and makes me wonder if the author has ever even spoken to a woman.
And don't even get me started on the archaeology. Some of it can be excused with the book being set i the 40's, but some of it is just plain lazy writing, that could have been solved by something ad easy as opening Wikipedia.
About the only positive thing I can say about the book is that it was an interesting concept, though poorly executed, and occasionally had some very elegant sentences, mostly in descriptions of the nature.
There is literally one woman in it, she is very much "not like other women", because she's a badass, who fought the Nazis, and she's definitely only in the book to look pretty, make Grant vulnerable because they're sleeping together, and to be the one everyone else can agree is suspicious.
Everything remotely related to women is extremely over sexualized and mystified, and makes me wonder if the author has ever even spoken to a woman.
And don't even get me started on the archaeology. Some of it can be excused with the book being set i the 40's, but some of it is just plain lazy writing, that could have been solved by something ad easy as opening Wikipedia.
About the only positive thing I can say about the book is that it was an interesting concept, though poorly executed, and occasionally had some very elegant sentences, mostly in descriptions of the nature.