Reliquary

Pendergast, Book 2

By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast.

When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare.

Prolong the suspense: listen to the first book, Relic.

©2008 Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (P)2008 Brilliance Audio

Critic reviews

The netherworld of New York City...proves as shuddery a setting for the authors' latest scientific monster mash as the American Museum of Natural History did for their bestselling Relic, to which this is the sequel. ( Publishers Weekly)
"This should do for the New York subway system what Jaws did for Long Island beaches." ( Booklist)
"Dick Hill's reading of this fascinating sequel to Relic builds the suspense and horror." ( AudioFile)

Love these books and Pendergast!

love lincoln/child books. never read this one. it's a follow up to relic which was very good story and movie. I enjoyed it though later pendergast novels are much better - Wheel of Darkness, Cabinet of Curiousities are great. Best one of all theirs is Thunderhead - could not stop. This one still enjoyable.

Great supense and interesting characters

Which character – as performed by Dick Hill – was your favorite?

Pendergast has to be oe of the most memorable charecters in the murder mystery genre, and Hill's performance is perfect. Lincoln and Child's Pendergast series crosses genres, incorporting elements of suspense, mystery, crime and horror. This sequel was just as gripping as Relic, and I look forwad to listening to the rest of the series.

Any additional comments?

My favorite Audible books have been those that use both a male and a female reader. Even talented male readers such as Hill, who can believably perform a range of ages and accents, don't seem to be be able to perform a believable female voice. Even the stongest female characters end up with high pitched, breathy, girly voices, or they sound like drag queens. This is hard on the ears of your female readers who enjoy the strong female characters. Please, please do more books with two readers!

loved it!

I LOVED this book. So hard to stop listening. 😁 I would definitely recommend! Can't wait for the next!

wonderful

this is a very good story, i enjoyed how the writers showed the characters personality changes since the last museum incident

Didn't hold up to the first one

I was excited when I listened to book 1 thinking "I found a good series!" Then I listened to the 2nd, the performance was lacking compared to the 1st: good voice changes and giving each character depth, this book had none of that, sometime hard to remember what character you following. Story was lacking something not sure what but it jumped around and made it hard to concentrate. Overall I was disappointed and only finished it because I was hoping it would eventually pull out for a good ending.

A true sequel to the Relic

I liked The Relic, the characters, writing style, and overall flow were excellent. I just thought the almost supernatural element of the creature and the drug was extremely poorly done. It was painfully long-winded explainations of painfully bad and wrong science and tech that destroyed anotherwise excellent book.

For Reliquary, I was expecting everything Iliked from The Relic but a new and better story. What I got was more of the same, the creatures that ruined The Relic are back with far worse pseudo-science and longer painfully stupid explainations than ever.

The book really is very well written it grabs you from the first chapter and keeps the action going, I just really wish the authors would have put 1/10th the effort into actual research that they put into making up silly fake science.

The Narration is okay for the most part, nothing great, nothing too bad, but the special effects efforts kill it. For example, the pathologist walks away from the autopsy recorder microphone, so the audiobook gets faint and muffled. Well, we're not listening to the Pathologist's recording, we're listen to the audio book, we're supposed to be right there in the action. The faint echo effect when we're hearing people's thoughts is also quite annoying.

Better than number 1

I really liked this. It moved fast and has wonderful characters and a great plot. If you like the old monster stories with strong heros....this is a good one. Relic was good, but I liked this one a tad more for some reason.

another Excellent Novel!

I enjoyed this story as a sequel to the novel The Relic. Preston and Childs always keep you guessing.

Kept me listening

Would you listen to Reliquary again? Why?

This book was good, and kept me listening, but wasn't as good as the first book, in my opinion. The ending did catch me off guard, but was a little far fetched. A good book though.

The best series ever made!!

Thanks to my wife I have come to enjoy this series, now I'm listening to it again.