The Cult of Osiris by Andy McDermott (2009)
Read: August 2011
Jane bought this for us soon a good while ago and Scotty read it soon afterwards. Scotty’s review of it was ‘another one of those Egypt stories, but written with a screenplay in mind’ and I’m inclined to agree with him!
I found this to be a classic adventure fiction; a girl and a guy, some sexual tension, a mystery to uncover, some bad guys, a struggle, guns and a treasure map. This book had an added slight towards celebrity religion fads and tried to make a commentary on ‘the man’ as the protagonists were disgraced academics. Scotty was completely right that it seems to have been very much written with a screenplay / movie tie-in in mind – the action sequences in particular are described in such detail.
There were a few interesting points in the Egypt setting including corrupt and secret dig sites, reading star maps (as these maps are on the ceiling, then you need to swap East/West when reading them flat on the ground) and 4x4-ing into the desert to find lost temples.
A good enough read for a summer book, but not much more.
Read: August 2011
Jane bought this for us soon a good while ago and Scotty read it soon afterwards. Scotty’s review of it was ‘another one of those Egypt stories, but written with a screenplay in mind’ and I’m inclined to agree with him!
I found this to be a classic adventure fiction; a girl and a guy, some sexual tension, a mystery to uncover, some bad guys, a struggle, guns and a treasure map. This book had an added slight towards celebrity religion fads and tried to make a commentary on ‘the man’ as the protagonists were disgraced academics. Scotty was completely right that it seems to have been very much written with a screenplay / movie tie-in in mind – the action sequences in particular are described in such detail.
There were a few interesting points in the Egypt setting including corrupt and secret dig sites, reading star maps (as these maps are on the ceiling, then you need to swap East/West when reading them flat on the ground) and 4x4-ing into the desert to find lost temples.
A good enough read for a summer book, but not much more.
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