Today's Blog/Website of the Day is The Written World found at http://myreadingbooks.blogspot.com/. "My thoughts on the books that I have read. As well as random ramblings on other things of interest (to me)."
I finished THE LAST EMBER by Daniel Levin this afternoon. If you're looking for the next Da Vinci Code mixed with Raiders of the Lost Ark ... this is it. If you don't mind the frequent info dumps (and I don't when its a topic I love), it borrows heavily from the impossible adventures of those two stories. This book has got the solving of millenia-old puzzles in minutes, having the prizes in hand only to be chased by giant boulder moments quite a number of times, and the ultimate goal is equal to the Ark of the Covenant. You've got a reluctant hero, a super-smart heroine, bad guys who are greedy or want to obtain ultimate power, quirky helpers along the way, betrayals, unexpected rescues at the last minute ... and one-liner quips worthy of a summer blockbuster which undoubtedly this will become. Don't get me wrong -- I enjoyed it immensely.
Next to be read I think will be THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLES by Susanna Gregory. This is 14th of 15 in series featuring Matthew Bartholomew, physician, and his colleague Brother Michael, in 14th century Cambridge, England. Here is a description:
Set in 1357 in Cambridge, England, Gregory's taut 14th chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (after 2008's To Kill or Cure) finds the physician and independent thinker under suspicion when Father Thomas, a pious priest, dies under his care after an accidental blow to the head. The accusations raised against Bartholomew come amid a poisonous atmosphere fostered by a shadowy rabble-rouser known as the Sorcerer, whose true identity is the subject of rampant speculation. Several murders follow Thomas's death. The doctor's willingness to aid any patient in need, including the local witch, provides fodder for his adversaries. When corpses are desecrated, people fear that a satanic cult is at work. Bartholomew questions the true loyalties of some of his closest allies as well as his own ability to uncover the prime mover behind the crimes.
This was published in 2008 and has 487 pages.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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