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)

I'm just not loving this series.

I figured with 20 some books in this series it must be pretty good. But I'm just not loving it.

Great performance

Hill did a great narration among many different characters. Preston and Child are always good. If any suggestion it would be to focus more on dialogue and less on description of environment

So So Read

Would you listen to Reliquary again? Why?

No, got the full story now

Would you be willing to try another book from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child ? Why or why not?

Probably not. Characters are shallow. Need better fact checking, vitamin D deficiency causes rickets, not scurvy, as we are told many times.

What does Dick Hill bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Adds dimension to the reading process

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No

Good story, great narration.

Good story, but I could have done without the cheesy 90` strong woman routine. Let’s just say there are no women in this book that goes un-flattered, and it’s not subtle about it.

That said, the story is fun, and there are some genuinely unsettling moments here. The narrator is great, and a big improvement over the mush mouthed idiot that read the first book in the series.

It was actually the fact that this had a different narrator that made me pick this up in the first place, so if you, like me hated the narrator in “The Relic”, give this one a go.

1st book of the series

I finished Crimson shores and I enjoyed it so much I decided to go to the beginning .
Very talented writers, and they really know how to spin a tale.

Absolutely fantastic!

Remarkable writing. The pulse of this story takes the breathe away and to realize it is part truth yet, parts are fictional is pretty damn scary. Makes you wonder.

Good read

This is the answer to Relic's cliffhanger. The underground of New York becomes a kind of petri dish for the development of genetic manipulation al la the Mbwun model. The plot moves quickly, due in part that readers are already familiar with the main characters. Well-drawn characters Margo Green, Vincent D'Agosta and Bill Smithback are all back to join Pendergast in a desperate effort to prevent catastrophe. Dick Hill does a good job as narrator.

Great characters,lots of action & a great twist

Great characters, lots of action & a great surprise ending. As with other books by Preston & Child, I can't wait to get to the end & I am always sad when I do.

Good sequel

This was a good sequel but I thought the original book had more intensity to it. This story picks up 18 months after the museum beast is killed and adds to the plot bunny that was created in the epilogue of Relic. There are more mysterious killings, more bumbling cops and political characters, and of course the dry humor of Pendergast, the surprising intellect of D'Agosta, and the reluctant hero of Margo Green.
What stopped me from giving this book 5 stars across the board was the revealing of the evil overlord. Who it turned out to be was not believable and there was no build up before the 'big reveal' to prepare the reader for the disappointing revelation. Maybe if this part had been written better, I would have liked this book as well as the first one.

I love Agent Pendergast!

I could read anything with him in it! This was a fan and exciting sequel to Relic. It only gets 4 stars because of the change in narrator... It's hard to listen to 14 hours of Relic with certain accents and pronunciations and then go into the sequel with a completely different guy...