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Blue Labyrinth (2014)

by Douglas Preston(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1455525898 (ISBN13: 9781455525898)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

series

Pendergast

review 1: If you've never read any of the Pendergast books, this isn't the place to start. Don't get me wrong, the book is terrific if you're already a fan, but it would be much better to go to earlier books and get a sense of what a magnificent character Preston & Child created in Pendergast.If you're already familiar with him, by all means don't miss this one. It's Pendergast from start to finish.
review 2: I think it says something for the fourteenth book of a series that the last few chapters I was not just riveted but exhilerated. I had to go back and re-read the last 50 pages immediately after finishing this because I was so blown away. This might rocket to the top of my most favorite in this series. Not that the last few books have been bad--I liked White Fire but... more I knew others hated it. The Helen books were okay but I didn't quite get all the motivations there--though my least favorite of all is Wheel of Darkness. I didn't like Wheel of Darkness because I thought after the Diogenes trilogy that so much more could have been done with the character of Constance and was really disappointed. Worries in vain--she comes back kicking in this one. The final scenes where she and Margo team up (albeit a bit separately) to aid Pendergast was beyond fantastic. I mean she spent like hundred years living in a serial killer's basement, eventually becoming his lab assistant. The woman is not someone to mess with, even though she rarely leaves the house--which was well done in the Diogenes books. Everything is back--the Museums, crazy locations, the old Pendergast "bad habits" -- I still miss Bill Smithback and was suprised Laura did not make an appearance. Spoiler question: One thing for those who did read the book--what was the one thing that Hezekiah missed with the formula? Did I somehow skip past where they figured that out? Because it seems like Margo eventually just winged it with some coffee filters and a lighter at the end. less

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