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From the internationally bestselling author of The Genesis Secret-a seductive, exotic new thriller
In the silent caves beneath France, young archaeologist Julia Kerrigan unearths an ancient skull-with a hole bored through the forehead. After she reveals her discovery, her mentor is brutally murdered. Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, photographer Jake Thurby is offered a mysterious assignment by a beautiful Cambodian lawyer who is investigating finds at the two-thousand-year-old Plain of Jars-finds that shadowy forces want kept secret.
From the temples of Angkor Wat and the wild streets of Bangkok to the prehistoric caves in Western Europe, what links Jake's and Julia's discoveries is a strange, demonic woman whose unquenchable thirst for vengeance-and the horrors she seeks to avenge- are truly shocking.
Readers have become enthralled by Knox's vivid blend of buccaneering modern adventure, gothic horror, and grand intellectual puzzles. The Lost Goddess is his most exciting novel to date.
Anonymous
Posted April 27, 2012
The worse novel I have ever read. This book was so boring it took me a month to get through it. The characters would have to be superheroes to get out of all the trouble they found themselves in, and they must have had millions of dollars to be able to travel all over the world to get into more boring trouble.
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Posted February 3, 2012
Review: The Lost Goddess by Tom Knox
4 STARS
I have mixed views on this book. Their is a lot of history in here that I really did not know about. All the violence of the past is painful, scary and the numbers are hard to believe. But if we do not learn from the past we will repeat it.
The mystery and suspense some of it or a lot of the science bits I did not totally understand and I really hope that part if pure fiction but know some is probably true.
Their are two parts of the story and how they switched threw me some and had to realize that they had switched again.
Julia was a archaeolgist working in a cave underground in France at the begining. I liked her but wanted more emotion from her. I felt a little detached from her. She was trying to put the pieces together and came up with a theory.
Jake was a photographer who was working on photos for a coffee book when he wanted to find out more of what was happened in the past That Chemda was trying to uncover in Cambodia. So Jake went with her to the Plain of Jars and their escape to figure out the past and stay alive began.
I had a hard time caring about Jake and Chemda I don't know if it was I could not totally escape into the book or if just a bad day for me to connect. I am thinking it was because I was more concerned about the real victims in the history of the region that I could not enjoy the book more.
I know that I want to know more of the region history and have already looked up and read more about the Plain of Jars. The history and the discriptions of the region were real and I could envision it.
02/02/2012 PUB
Penguin Group, USA
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.The Lost Goddess starts out interestingly enough, with an archaeological
discovery in a French cave, followed by a mysterious assault in the
dying artificial light deep underground. For me, that opening scene was
the highlight of the novel, which is a definite problem - that level of
tension and suspense is simply never recaptured anywhere else within the
story. A lot of the action seemed to be mere padding, such as the
extended tangent of police chases and family squabbles that nearly
brought the middle of the book to a halt. What I had hoped would be a
fun archaeological adventure (akin to Matthew Reilly), though, and was
even willing to accept as yet another pale imitation of Dan Brown,
simply got bogged down by way more religious fanaticism and politics
than I cared to wade through. Where it completely lost my interest was
with its heavy-handed approach in equating 'faith' with all that is good
and pure in the world, and 'atheism' with all that is evil and cruel.
There is actually a line towards the end of the novel where one of the
characters calls atheism "a form of dementia . . . a mental
illness." It's a shame, because the Hands of Gargas and the Plain
of Jars are definitely unique MacGuffins to explore, and there are hints
of competent writing here. If only the the history hadn't been wasted in
info-dumps, and then overshadowed by the social/political commentary and
religious fanaticism, it could have been an average thriller.
All-in-all, a rather disappointing read, and an author I certainly don't
care to revisit.
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Posted August 10, 2012
BEWARE of this book,,,,,it's the same book as Bible of the Dead by Tom Knox -- just a new title and a little editing!
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Posted July 3, 2012
Knox takes the rich vein of 70's marxists and the Khmer Rouge and cranks out a trite, predictable pot boiler with " twists" at the end that will make you want to chuck the book against the nearest wall.
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Genesis Secret-a seductive, exotic new thriller
In the silent caves beneath France, young archaeologist Julia Kerrigan unearths an ancient skull-with a hole bored through the forehead. After she reveals her discovery, her mentor is brutally murdered. Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, photographer Jake Thurby is offered a mysterious assignment by a beautiful Cambodian lawyer who is ...