Tom Isbell

Scott Daggart, un antropólogo estadounidense especializado en la cultura maya y profesor de la universidad de Chicago, se encuentra pasando el verano en el Yucatán, en las inmediaciones de Playa del Carmen, embarcado en la excavación de un yacimiento arqueológico. Scott intenta superar la muerte de su esposa, asesinada poco antes en Chicago en el transcurso de un robo. Un día, sorpresivamente, recibe la llamada de Lyman Tingley, un antiguo amigo y colega con el que perdió el contacto tiempo atrás. Tingley, un ambicioso antropólogo, ha conseguido fama internacional al anunciar el descubrimiento del Quinto Códice, uno de los escasísimos libros mayas que se salvaron de la quema a la que los conquistadores y el clero españoles sometieron las bibliotecas indígenas a su llegada al Nuevo Mundo. Daggart se ve a partir de ese momento involucrado en una sucesión de aventuras y conspiraciones en su lucha por evitar que el manuscrito sea utilizado para fines terroristas.… (meer)

I'm so done with dystopians, you guys. I just... I don't like them anymore. So nothing against this book in particular, but BLARGH I'm sick of reading the same story over and over and over. That said, I think some of our teens will love this. It's got multiple character perspectives, plenty of driving action, hints of mysterious conspiracy dropped throughout, and a fair amount of creepy/gross violence. The "doctor" who performs experiments on some of the kids is SO AWFUL. Give this to kids who want something that's more about the action and less about the world-building.

Also, I've also noticed this book got lots of bad reviews for its language/writing style, but I actually had zero issue with that. I was kind of surprised to see those reviews, because I thought the writing was fine. Nothing special, perhaps, but serviceable and didn't detract from the story at all for me.… (meer)

This book was really more of a two and a half stars.

I don't know why, but stories like this, ones of people trapped in awful places in post-apocalyptic settings really appeal to me. This particular one was way less gripping than many others I have read, though not terrible by any means.

There were a few things about the story/writing that bothered me great deal, a big one being the god damned insta-love crap between Book and Hope. They said like two words to each other and all of a sudden they couldn't stop thinking of the other and were pining after each other.

A couple of scenes involving the above mentioned characters seemed incredibly out of place, especially the one where Book and Hope were trapped in the cave in and decided to lay down and take a nap pressed against each other rather than dig their way out.

The ending was a load of crap too. They got all the way to apparent freedom and then were just like "well, gotta go back now to get the others!" Idk why they couldn't have just rested for even a short while and potentially gathered up townspeople to help them.

I will not be continuing this series.… (meer)