Reliquary

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Summary: It ain't The Relic
Review: With the heart-racing, action-packed, rollercoaster-ride that The Relic was, it's a shame that what could have been a great sequel fell flat. What's with the sewer people? How can you go from an underground hybrid monster to a bunch of deformed sewer people? How scary is that? New York City has thousands of them! I like Preston and Child's writing, but Reliquary lacks the suspense, horror, and non-stop action of The Relic.

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Summary: very dessapointing
Review: Even when the plot and the suspence of the story are just fine, it seems that the characters stroll until the middle of the book to find out just what everybody already knew at the end of the movie. If you really don't have any other horror book to read and you love the simple recollection of facts taken from different magazines, this could be your choice.

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Summary: aaaaa its scary
Review: its really scary buy it no

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Summary: Where the heck is the creature?
Review: What?? No Mbwun?? No red-eyed-half-hairy-half-scaly-tooth-and-claw-weilding-death-machine?? As good as the characters and setting were in "The Relic", the real secret of its success was the monster. And now it's gone. All your favourits--Margo, Pendergast, D'Agosta and Smithback--are back and as good as ever, and the new setting in the subway is perhaps even more effective than the first time (if that's possible)... but I worked my way through half of the book waiting on the flipping creature!! Even with the added plot element of trying to stop the plant escaping into the oceans, it just doesn't have the same va-voom as before. Still a cut above the rest in the horror genre, but not as good as the original.

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Summary: Just when you thought Relic couldn't get any cornier.
Review: Even though Relic wasn't all that, it did have its moments. Just as this book did. Unfortunatly that moment was when I closed the book after reading the last page. Sure the whole "Stop the plant before it destroys our eco-system" dilemma was intriguing. But when the final confrontation between them and the *gasp* wrinkly people was over, I couldn't stop laughing. If your in the mood for a book that fails to follow plot lines, and makes absolutly no sense at all then by all means read this book.

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Summary: Cool book
Review: I enjoyed "Reliquary" about the same amount as "Relic." It had action and adventure in it. I liked the creature in the first book better though. If you've read Relic, I'de reccomend this book. If not, read Relic first.

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Summary: Good idea that just becomes tiresome.
Review: Considering that they were starting off with some good material, ripped off from Relic, this could have been better. Eventually it became weak enough and absurd enough that I gave up.

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Summary: Suspensful and Cool. Scary as anything you're apt to read
Review: Take a bone-chilling tour of the haunted underground labrynths below Manhatten. The book is a little weaker than Relic, but it was still an incredible sequel. If you liked Relic, don't miss this cool and scary novel of what could be lurking just below the very ground we walk on. I also reviewed Relic. CHeck it out.

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Summary: Good, but could never stand alone
Review: I read The Relic aobut a year ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I also enjoyed this one (read it in a few days)but there were points where I wanted to run to the library and look up items in The Relic. I really don't think that someone who read this without having read The Relic will "get" everything that is going on. Like some other readers, I also thought the ending was a little too "sewed up". BUT, it is a book I will recommend - to people who have read The Relic.

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Summary: The thought of searching for a monster freightings me.
Review: The reliquary is an amuzing book. It is a great follow-up of the Relic, another scaring but amuzing threller. Douglas Preston is a great story writer and for him to come up with a sequal to a book and make it as scary as the first is great. Ever scary book or movie lover should read this book because it has everthing we want in a scary book and more. The suspence will keep your eyes glued to the book. Il est tres amusant et heuresment.