What did they know back then which is lost now? He does well to make each character distinct, though his grasp of accents is limited, and the performance may have been better if he simply didn't try. The narrator is competent, but he pronounces the occasional word so bizarrely that it proved distracting. The author does a brilliant job of bringing scenescapes to life and attaching the reader to a large cast of characters very quickly. In some scenes, the literally unbelievable acts of heroism were enough to utterly destroy the realism, though the entertainment was never at risk. This book will delight fans of Tomb Raider, trap filled adventure games like D&D, or conspiracy theories while anyone who knows anything of basic physics, biology, botany, engineering or pretty much any stream of science will need to suspend a considerable portion of disbelief. Predictably written like an action movie script by an author who's seen more films than real life. Indiana Jones, Die Hard & Crocodile Dundee.
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