Review: Light Reading
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2012
Roselli's Gold is a quick, light read--a mildly entertaining story about WWII gold and a lost Vatican secret. The parts of the book that were good reminded me of a cross between Indiana Jones and the Jack Higgins novel "Sheba". The cover art was particularly intriguing and I spotted very few typos, impressive for a self-pubbed book.What I didn't like: there were too many angles to the story for each to be developed sufficiently in the pages allocated. You have the Vatican, Roselli, Roselli's kids, the Mafia, the French--at some point it became mind-numbing. And I was let down by the ending, felt anti-climactic after all that had gone before. There is also a case of incest that, while not explicit, was totally unnecessary. It didn't add anything to the story and just gave me a queasy feeling.I would give the plotting four stars and the characterization two. Michael Parker is an author of some talent, and I'll probably be reading more of him in the future.