Eduardo Santiago
A bit of a stretch, then increasingly so, well into preposterous and beyond. The main characters are Mary Sues, the villains cartoonish, the situations more and more hokey. Which makes the tension nonexistent because—not a spoiler—the reader knows that the heroes will miraculously escape this predicament and the next. It would probably work better as a movie than it did as a book, and I bet that was the hope. (If they do make it a movie, they should get Sydney Greenstreet to play the small role that’s perfect for him. I would totally watch that.)
Anyhow, fun for a change of pace. Noble heroes, imaginative albeit contrived story elements. I’ll probably stick to Preston’s nonfiction in future: that’s much more my thing.
A bit of a stretch, then increasingly so, well into preposterous and beyond. The main characters are Mary Sues, the villains cartoonish, the situations more and more hokey. Which makes the tension nonexistent because—not a spoiler—the reader knows that the heroes will miraculously escape this predicament and the next. It would probably work better as a movie than it did as a book, and I bet that was the hope. (If they do make it a movie, they should get Sydney Greenstreet to play the small role that’s perfect for him. I would totally watch that.)
Anyhow, fun for a change of pace. Noble heroes, imaginative albeit contrived story elements. I’ll probably stick to Preston’s nonfiction in future: that’s much more my thing.