I love history thrillers. They can me amazing... why did people construct Stonehenge and how, why there are pyramids in Egypt, Mexico, Servia (I believe it was discovered) or
cambodja when they even communicate. Why some maps have a massive white continent hundreds of years before someone "discovered" and so on... These are amazing questions that leave open for interesting thrillers...
This one puts Atlántida in the Antarctica and tries to correlates with myths from south America or Egypt and explain some stuff I will not talk here.. And it's amazing and believable - well part of it the all alien stuff was the one that didn't really stick with me - heck what do I know
So enter Conrad Yeats a archaeologist that is probably the best one in the world and a womanizer. Enter Serena Serghetti the young woman of 27 that can/is ;
1) a nun
2) famous worldwide due to her activist for the environment and other stuff- imagine that brat greta times 100 but cool.
3) un councillor and also director of Australia Antarctic preservation society
4) a helicopter pilot
5) doctor
My god... she reminds me of that meme with the porn actor who is a medic, fireman, handyman, accountant, astronaut etc...
And then the father of Conrad who is what you expect from a US Military man. Driven, obnoxious , only see the end results not caring for anyone and so on...
So what is this about...
Basically, an earthquake happens in Antarctica and our two protagonists go there (for different reasons) to understand what is happening. Alas, it's Atlantida (not really a spoiler since it's in the back cover). Enter archaeologic history lesson which was fine and thriller stuff happen.. But my main problem are spoiler territory...
Spoiler BEGIN
- everything happens because it happens at the correct time people are just there - it's almost like fate
- the all alien stuff and main character being a alien but never really found out except today! it seems we are all alien.
- the Arabs being there before anyone else and for their own selfish reasons of oil
- let me torture you girlie with the same methods you Christians tortured us for hundreds of years (arabs) WHAT? Inquisition main victims were other Christians & Jews not Arabs as if Arabs didn't knew how to torture someone. Yeah right
- The all action scenes that are just boring & repetitive including the one Conrad is tied to a post and with his teeth he grabbed his glasses, with his glasses when to his pocket and put the zippo in the lenses, put that in the collar and down into his hand. Fucking MacGyver meets Mission Impossible.
- The all plot itself around the pyramid become the crust displacement but then a spectre stops it.. oh well at least the Maldives are gone - and this is what upsets me. Not the Maldives stuff (okay that would be bad of course) but the status quo. The problem with thrillers is it happens a lot of stuff but in the end we have to maintain the status quo ante bellum so you can justify the second/third novel. And this happens with all thrillers I know - people will never knew this happen, something happens and not even the government involved know and everyone is happy. This upsets me a lot.
- the alien spacecraft
SPOILERS ENDING
Overall, it was fast fun ride but unfortunately I found it flat due to the characters and the plot itself. The only redeeming quality is the archaeologic stuff that makes me wonder about the volatile of history itself.
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