“I'm a big fan of MM Liu, and while I liked this book a lot, I didn't like it as much as I've liked others of hers. When you have so much to live up to, I guess it's harder to reach that peak everytime. Still, this was a good read with a lot of fast paced action. I liked the romance between Miri and Dean, though since it was a reunion romance, had a lot of flashback-y feeling scenes. Still, it was very deep and moving, I thought. Miri is an archaeologist who has just helped her mentor find an ancient mummy on Taiwan with a bit of bizarre primitive surgery done on it to insert a chunk of red jade in the skeleton's chest. And everybody and his dog And cat wants that chunk of red jade. The agents of Dirk & Steele turn up in the person of the prescient Dean, and the chase is on. But at the end, I was left with way too many loose ends. Not about the romance, that finished nicely, but I couldn't figure out quite how they defeated the bad guy, or what had happened to them that allowed them to do so. And what about all those extra characters that sorta got dropped into the story? I just didn't feel like it wrapped up very well, like she left too many threads to pick up in future stories. All in all, I enjoyed the story, even though I was left feeling a bit out of breath and confused. It was worth the ride.”
Gail Dayton wrote this review Saturday, August 18 2007.
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