Douglas Preston
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 464 pages Rating: 4.01 | 37813 Users | 1415 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Reliquary |
| ISBN: | 0765354950 (ISBN13: 9780765354952) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Pendergast #2 |
| Characters: | Aloysius X.L. Pendergast, Margo Green, William Smithback, Dr. Whitney C. Frock, Laura Hayward, Jack Waxie, Bryce Harriman, Vincent D'Agosta |
| Setting: | New York State(United States) New York City, New York(United States) |
Description To Books Reliquary (Pendergast #2)
Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare.
List Of Books Reliquary (Pendergast #2)
| Title | : | Reliquary (Pendergast #2) |
| Author | : | Douglas Preston |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2005 by Tor Books (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Mystery. Horror. Fiction |
Rating Of Books Reliquary (Pendergast #2)
Ratings: 4.01 From 37813 Users | 1415 ReviewsRate Of Books Reliquary (Pendergast #2)
Please let me never again read a novel about a race of mutated hoboes living underground.Seems like a bit of a cash grab. The novel Relic was a huge success and made into a fairly successful, albeit bad, movie.Naturally, the authors wanted to make a sequel. I don't blame them. The book seems about half baked, and about ten years behind the times (1997). There's a lot of pseudo-science, but it's like the authors read Bonfire of the Vanities, and tried to shove it into a Jaws rip off. There's even a pompous author's statement about homelessness, as if they didn't realize that
4.3 rounded down. A very fun book that is just a tiny step down from the awesomeness that was book 1. The ending was a little too much "Really..?" and "That's who..." for me but not enough so that it took away from the overall enjoyment of the whole thing. I thought it was much more violent than its predecessor, but that is a good thing with me and it definitely had a lot more going on peripherally with many side plots and extra characters. I liked it a lot and it was a good way to spend a
Good novel, but not as good as The Relic. The Relic seemed like more of a classic monster story whereas this one took a different approach that I didn't think worked as well.(view spoiler)[ The whole mad scientist posing as a god to the monsters in the sewer just didn't work to me, even though there at least were good explanations presented for what led to the events. I just thought the first story with the wandering monster in the museum was much better than the more human like monsters living
Reliquary is to Relic what Aliens is to Alien. Both are them are great books (and movies) and while the first book (movie) focuses on a single predator in a closed space, the latter focuses on multiple predators in larger space.Reliquary, while being as intense as Relic, also manages to have time for character development. In addition to the gang of four we saw in Relic (Pendergast, D'Agosta, Margo & Bill), we have new characters who also have their own unique stories.The great writing as
4.5 Just in case, may be spoilers .. minor ones. Though I think they are in the synopsis on the book. This book was scary, or gave me a few shivers but for entirely different reasons than Relic. This one took place mostly under the city of NY and again in the NY Museum of Natural History. Ive always loved hearing about the Paris catacombs, cenotés and cave systems so this was a bonus mystery underworld waiting to be discovered. The thing is, there are these tunnels, with all of these homeless:
With that tantalizing wrap-up of Relic, I couldnt wait to revisit the story and characters in Reliquary. Im glad the authors decided to continue the story of Mbwun right off, although its clear after the prologue that much has happened and mutated behind the scenes.You get a return of the familiar characters, but most have changed a little, partly from the events they survived and partly from the developments which befell them as a consequence of those events. Margo has rounded out to be a
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