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brianbsea wrote on 03/14/2010:

The premise of this book is very appealing but its execution is juvenile at best. It reads more like a bad made-for-tv movie script.

The character development is reserved for the end of the book, while the first chapter has no other purpose but to introduce us to only two of the characters. No other useful information is provided. (Again, kind of like what you see in B movies.)

While the sex is hot, its positions in the story are jarring. Especially when you find out that in one case it is performed, willingly of course, on a barely legal character by his college professor. (Okay, we're talking fantasy here, but still.) More than once I began to wonder if these guys weren't just sluts.

The author's ability to verbally draw a picture is definitely limited. "The ocean was a dark, sinister gray ... ." "It was a dark and stormy night," anyone? And he deftly rips images from other well known works; poisonous snakes crawling out of holes in the ceiling and walls, pyramids appearing and disappearing in the middle of the desert, and so on. And while I'm at it, the author's idea of expanding the horror factor is multiple encounters with terrifying crocodiles.

In the hands of a seasoned author or editor who cared this story could have be a real treat. A pot boiling pot boiler, a rip snortin' good read. Unfortunately, it fails and disappoints on almost every point. Also unfortunately, I will not be looking forward to nor reading any of this author's future works.

Northern Reader wrote on 03/13/2010:

Could not put it down, it was a cross between Hardy Boys, and Indian Jones. Excellent story line.