A review by planetarypan
The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry
3.0
"The Alexandria Link" is the second in the Cotton Malone series, and it starts off right where the first one left off -- in Cotton's bookshop with his ex-wife on the doorstep.
It wasn't really the mystery in this story that kept the pace. Yes, Cotton and his ex are off to find the Library of Alexandria, or rather, what was saved from the Library prior to all its various sackings and burnings at the hands of people who, frankly, didn't have a healthy respect for knowledge. But I digress.
The main force in the story is all the various twists and turns. You have NO idea who to trust and only a basic idea of who NOT to trust. And it does not congeal until the very end.
I'm not going to say I read this in a day, but I definitely wanted to spend more time with it than I had. It could have been a little faster paced, and I am not sure that the payoff delivered, but it was still a pleasant read.
If you like thrillers with an air of conspiracy theory in them, it is definitely worthwhile. If you think stuff like that is lame, avoid it.
It wasn't really the mystery in this story that kept the pace. Yes, Cotton and his ex are off to find the Library of Alexandria, or rather, what was saved from the Library prior to all its various sackings and burnings at the hands of people who, frankly, didn't have a healthy respect for knowledge. But I digress.
The main force in the story is all the various twists and turns. You have NO idea who to trust and only a basic idea of who NOT to trust. And it does not congeal until the very end.
I'm not going to say I read this in a day, but I definitely wanted to spend more time with it than I had. It could have been a little faster paced, and I am not sure that the payoff delivered, but it was still a pleasant read.
If you like thrillers with an air of conspiracy theory in them, it is definitely worthwhile. If you think stuff like that is lame, avoid it.