Review: finally finished
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2012
At first, I was really excited by this book.  The details provided to find the treasure were extraordinary.  Plus the action started as soon as you opened the ebook.  Yeah, an author who really did his research.But after finding the first clue, no more clues were presented.  Make something up.  Literally, the theories came close to devolving to Alexander the Great would only see prostitutes at one place along the Nile.  The tablet must be at his favorite brothel.  Let's go there.Spoiler**The last theory was the vatican liked to steal roman artifacts.  Let's break into the vatican vault room.  For the first time ever, this failed.  But evil goons and Jaz showed up, blew up an obelisk, and there was the emerald tablet.  Really?  Really?Spoiler over**No matter where the good guys went, the bad guys (and Jaz) would show up.  Ugh.  And no matter how dire the circumstances, the good guys survived like they were energizer bunnies.Over and over, they would propose a baseless theory, find a clue and there would be evil Jaz.  Okay, getting bored.  This went on for 60% of the book.Umm, the book was filled with sexual sadists.  This did not add to the story.More could have been done with the evil atlanteans trying to destroy the world.  And the previous sentence is all we learn...beyond they were poopy about their home being flooded.Wrong stuff:The sibyl is not the oracle.  She is a mouthpiece for the oracle.XRF hand analyzer cannot identify any unknowns, it can only identify knowns for which spectographic calibration has been downloaded.