This is currently my favorite writing team

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	• Relic Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Tor Books, 2007 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 282 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This is currently my favorite writing team

I am happy to have "discovered" these authors after they had been published for a while. I have many books to catch up on. This was a good book, enjoyable and a fun fast read. I am a larger fan of the sequel though. I found it more satisfying and creative.

Great fun read

Much of this book takes place in a fictionalised version of the American Museum of Natural History and was inspired by a nocturnal visit of that establishment undertaken by the two authors who both felt the venue-in particular its dinosaur hall -would be an ideal setting for a thriller .They were right -and this ,their debut novel -still holds up as a fun ride .
The curators of the museum are getting ready to open a prestigious new exhibition whose theme is Superstition and whose centrepiece is a statue of the God Mbuen ,a creature half human and half reptile .The icon has been transferred from the Amazon River region and right from the word go its disinterrment has been followed by a series of gruesome deaths .The victims have not merely been killled -they have been eviscerated and otherwise severely mutilated including two victims discovered in the labyrinthine tunnels under the museum itself .The killer leaves behind DNA which blends human and the lizard strains
The museum curators ignore advice to delay the opening of the exhibition while the deaths are investigated as to do so would result in monetary crisis --the echoes of "Jaws " are clear .

The hunters are a disparate group-there is Margo Green ,the doctoral student and her adviser Dr Frock ,an FBI man named Pendergast ,a crime reporter Bill Smithback and a veteran cop Vincent D'Agosta .On the night of the exhibition opening the killer strikes again and the party hunts him down through the catacombs under the museum
The characters are briefly but vividly etched and the book build to an atmospheric and gripping climax .The eerie settings add impact and the authors do a masterly job of interpolating useful chunks of academic erudition among the gore .
Its an enjoyable book and still for my money the best this team have written .Unreservedly recommended -unless you dont like gory books in which case it is best avoided

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I miss reading books like this.

A very long time had passed since I last read a book like this. This was the type of book that pretty much got me hooked on free-reading nearly 12 years ago. Back then I would entertain my brain with as many Michael Crichton books as I could get my hands on. His earlier works were more on parallel with Relic in terms of similar story. I was taken back to a time when I could not wait to read the next Crichton. I read Congo, I read Sphere and of course Jurassic Park. I love those books; they will always have a place on my bookshelf. I would not even know which way to turn to find a book similar to them, however. That was the case anyway, until a friend suggested I read Relic.

A publicity quote on the cover of the paperback edition touts Relic as better than Jurassic Park. I happen to disagree, but that may be my biased "my dad can beat up your dad"-feeling interfering.

This was the first book I have read by either Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, and not so surprisingly the first I have read by them both. I would have to do a bit more research before picking up one of their books to see what it is about, hoping it would be along these same lines. Relic was a very quick read, even for someone like me who is not the fastest of readers.

I liked the suspense created by the writing itself, but also the cliffhanger chapter endings. I liked the setting inside the old museum; it was perfect for this type of story.

Never underestimate the recommendation of a friend. This was not by any means the best book I have ever read, but it was quick, fun and exciting. And I would have never read it had a friend not suggested it. So my thanks to him.

(The movie came out so many years ago that I have forgotten the details and cannot comment on their similarity.)

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Scary and Thrilling

Relic
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

This book gave me nightmares. I haven't found a book like that on a long time. I literally had to leave my closet light on.
I love the way Preston and Child write it's so detailed its like your really there, but at the same time its not boring at all. The always keep you guessing and when you think you know what the truth is something else comes up to surprise you. I especially liked the way that this book ended but I wish they would have let the museum do the autopsy to find out what the museum beast really was.
My favorite character in this book was Pendergast because at first he was very skeptical about what was killing the people being a beast, but later on he realizes that nothing human could be doing this. And he starts to think outside the box and realizes that Dr. Frock and Margo could very well be right about this beast that is terrorizing that museum.
Another one of my favorite characters was D'Agasta, the police officer who was cooperative with Prendergast, and led the people who were trapped to safety, out of the uncharted tunnels of the NYC Museum. I also liked Smithback, the journalist for the New York Times paper, who is always getting himself caught up in the middle of the commotion and living to tell the story.

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Action-packed

Labrynth of dark, wet tunnels, evil-galore. Worthwhile read with great ending. Highly recommend this book. Also check out Thunderhead and Riptide.

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