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Chargement... The Stolen Chalice: A Novelpar Kitty Pilgrim
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This review is a portion of the original posted at LuxuryReading.com: I had an incredibly hard time reading this novel. Initially, I was expecting a mystery, and while that is an aspect, the characters and their emotions towards the situation and each other take center stage. This drives the novel to feel more like romantic fiction that is moved forward by a series of action sequences. There are, however, no satisfyingly intimate moments to solidify its genre. The large amount of characters that are introduced throughout the novel (at least six main characters and a slew of minor characters) distracts from the potential of the book. Pilgrim constructs a large group characters, all with special knowledge about the missing artifact and/or biological terrorism, but they are all more concerned with the emotional aspects of their relationships. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"The black-tie gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art promises to be a star-studded evening. Cordelia Stapleton and John Sinclair have flown in from Alexandria, Egypt, to help celebrate ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian culture with New York's elite. The influential crowd of artists, collectors, scientists, and New York society dine and dance at the museum's historic Temple of Dendur, unaware that terrorists are planning to attack. Fortunately, museum security and police stop the terrorists, but the evening is a disaster. The next morning, Cordelia and Sinclair learn that an art theft ring struck New York while they were at the museum. All over the city, pieces of Egyptian art have been stolen. Ted VerPlanck-a pillar of New York society whom Cordelia met the night before-discovers that his penthouse apartment was robbed and the legendary Sardonyx Cup, an ancient Egyptian chalice, is missing. Ted asks John Sinclair to help him recover his precious artifact. Despite Cordelia's objections, Sinclair calls on his old flame the Egyptologist Dr. Holly Graham to help find the chalice. They discover the stolen art is being sold on the black market to fund an international terrorist group. The group's leader, a sinister Egyptian anarchist, and his aristocratic British partner, Lady Xandra Sommerset, are planning a biological-weapon attack to topple the major governments of the world. Aided by British and American security forces, Sinclair sets out to find the missing art, which holds clues to where and when the attack will take place. Pieces of stolen art are scattered around the world. The action moves from a sprawling ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to a castle on Scotland's rugged coastline, a beautiful two-hundred-foot yacht in the Mediterranean, the mysterious canals of Venice, the premier beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, and ultimately Cairo. Romance sizzles as Sinclair, Cordelia, and Holly Graham are caught in a love triangle, distracted by their emotions, and unknowingly moving closer to mortal danger."--Dust jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The Stolen Chalice takes you into the world of the rich, the middle class doing their jobs, and the hard working lower class. But who is in on the theft? This type of heist needs so many involved in so many levels.
Travel the globe with archaeologist, John Sinclair, and an assorted cast of characters. Written in great detail, you can imagine yourself there with them.
While the story is easy to follow and the chapters switch from one character/location to another, somewhere along the line, the theft of the chalice becomes a minimal point, while the other items take the forefront. Well written and a definite page turner, I would recommend it for everyone looking for travel, adventure and some thrills. ( )