Review: Great Book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
When I requested this, for some reason I thought I'd read at least one of the prior books in their entirety, though I knew I hadn't read all of them. But now, I seriously question that belief. I remember checking them out from the library, but actually reading them...not so much, it seems. However, for the most part, that lack of reading the rest of the series, didn't impair my enjoyment of this book. Since reading it, I've read one and a half of the other books and while the characters are connected, the plots aren't entirely.Now, for my thoughts on this book. I loved Maren, and her daughter, while constantly in her thoughts had very little screen time. One of my favorite scenes in the entire book came near the beginning when Maren gets a call from one of the hotel's groundskeepers (she's running a hotel for her mother when the story opens) about an excavation being done on one of the sand traps. Maren's daughter loves archaeology like her mother, and had recruited some hotel guest kids into helping her dig for artifacts in a sand trap. Hilarious because I could so see a kid doing that.Thad was strong in his own right and not an arse even when he discovers Maren has a child...his child. Oh, he's pissed, but can you blame him? He works through that issue and comes right back in supporting Maren as they struggle to protect her and everything around her from Evan Declan, a sinister man who wants the statue that Maren, her father and the others throughout the book are searching for.There was a secret society in this book, focused around protecting the statue and descendants of the one who originally cursed the thing, which I found a nice little subplot.Overall, this was a great book and got me way interested in reading the rest of the series. As usual with Elisabeth Naughton's works, I couldn't put it down once I seriously started reading it. Five-star rating from me!Book provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.