Review: Where's the Action??
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
THE MINOAN MASK (The Minoan Mask (A Chyna Stone Adventure #1)) is a short story that needs more definitive action scenes. When the bad guys take over a research ship, it is done when all the good guys are asleep or unconscious. When the good guys retake the ship, all the bad guys are drunk from celebrating their takeover. There are no punches thrown, no ensuing shoot-outs, no body count. This is the first of a series of archaeology based short stories, with the heroine Chyna Stone as a female Indiana Jones. Unfortunately, this story doesn't come up to the action level of Andy McDermott's books with Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase or some of the other archaeology based series on the market. THE MINOAN MASK is an easy read, only 110 pages, but is too predictable and too sedate to be more than 3 stars at best.