Review: Secrets, Assassins, and The Ambrosius Amulet
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2014
With Curse of the Druids by Aiden James, the series created by J.R. Rain and co-written by the two of them, goes a new direction with the new installment.  Nick and Ishi were joined in Honduras by the beautiful Marie da Vinci whose father was murdered by the villain of that book and avenged.  The team next went to the Maldives where Marie duly escorted them both out of there into the sands of Egypt where Nick finished up un-finished business and a lost pyramid with enough gold to set them up for life.  What they find is the gold and the hatred of Yassir Ali who sends his assassins out to find them.  A world wide visit through countries thought safe brings them to the area of Stonehenge where the Ambrosius Amulet awaits their gathering.Their journey is guided and pushed by Marie, dogged by assassins, and rife with internal bickering.  Marie has secrets, let out a little at a time.  Driven with a sense of fear, can love survive the growing tension between Nick and Marie and overcome - can the three come together to claim the amulet that may or may not exist. My guess is if the magic in the third book survives the magic in the fourth, the best is yet to come with a new and driven quest for more treasure and villains who refuse to be ignored.Curse of the Druids, by Aiden James alone at this turn, will lead the reader into new territory.  This is a book you will want to read and refer back when the next and the others appear next before your eyes.  Surprising twists, character development stretched beyond its limits, and the mystical will make itself known.  This, my friends, is my psychic prediction for the rest of the series.  Our beginning - Nick Caine #4 - begins right here.  Get it and read it..