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The Crystal Skull by Manda Scott (view source)
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|title=The Crystal Skull
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|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Maybe
|pages=400
|publisher=Bantam Press
|date=1 Jan January 2008
|isbn=978-0593055700
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University lecturers Stella and Kit are celebrating their being married to each other for roughly forty-eight hours by going to try and find an AAII (that's an Ancient Artefact of Immeasurable Import) in a very unusual location. England. However when they get it the problems only start...
Or does it? The notes on research and bibliography are convincing, for sure. But I certainly found no great narrative brilliance, and while the stories moved along together moderately well the jumps between the two seemed to be at random and with neither a good sense of rhythm nor cliff-hangers to incite us to read just a few more chapters. The book seems very restrained in making itself a certificate PG - the sex exceptionally is muted, and the violence similarly slight.
That said the book has its own website and some form of adventure game to coincide, and with this being a one-off with no sequels available it seems to be a reasonable fist of making a fun-for-all kind of romp. I did think it needed a little trimming, and a brighter spark involved in the action. But with it making a stall of it being set in Britain and (partly) in 2007 it works as a light read for an evening or two. With the authoress of the [[''Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle|Boudica]] '' cycle at the helm it could well be picked up and run with by the media, in which case it might be an omnipresent home-grown hit.
Whether I think it deserves that or not will have little effect. I would still like to thank the publishers for sending this to the Bookbag to read. Especially, of course, as I've only got five years of book-reading left to me...
You might also enjoy [[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott]]. {{amazontext|amazon=05930557050553824457}} {{amazonUStext|amazon=0553824457}}
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