15. The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

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15. The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

This is an older book. I’m not sure if it’s part of a series or not. It seems like it is because the characters know each other from something that happened in Utah in the past, but it doesn’t go in to much details about it, so who knows?

I enjoyed this book a lot, it had good characters, a good mystery, a touch of the supernatural, and I really liked that it didn’t have one central character. I liked that the characters weren’t police investigators (well, Pendergast was FBI, but not a typical agent.) the chick was an archaeologist and one of the dudes was a journalist. I was not keen on the ending really. It seemed rushed or incomplete or something. But overall it was good and I’d recommend it to those who like thrillers.

A note on Pendergast: He was supposed to be some kind of southern aristocrat/FBI agent and the whole southern thing didn’t add anything to character/plot. Maybe because I’m from the south that it didn’t work for me. In fact, I kept thinking he was British.

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