A review by greenldydragon
Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler

1.0

I really hated this book. It could be that it is just not my style of story, but how can you go wrong with a treasure hunt with a Napoleon historical twist and lushly rich settings? By no characterization/development and clues so easy to figure out that it barely takes a day (if that) for the characters to solve, that’s how. This book is about a couple, but on multiple occasions it felt like it was really the husband’s show with the wife being left behind while he went to investigate things. The way decisions were made and how the action played out wouldn’t have bothered me so much IF the book had a blurb that talked about mainly the husband, but it talks about them as a couple and I wanted more of that dynamic. Not a wife that basically always agreed with her husband, told him to come back safe, and relied on him to come up with plans to get them out of every situation.