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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider #3
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Man of Bronze
NEW ADVENTURES BASED ON THE WORLD’S BESTSELLING VIDEO GAME
After completing a near-fatal mission in the mysterious cloud forests of Peru, Lara Croft flies to Warsaw to tackle her next assignment–and finds herself in the middle of an epic battle for the ultimate power.
Reuben Baptiste needs Lara Croft’s help transporting precious cargo. But before Reuben can reveal any details, he is murdered–and Lara signs on with Reuben’s employer, the mysterious Order of the Bronze, to avenge his death. The Order shares with Lara its greatest a bronze android, thousands of years old, with uncanny abilities. But the android is crippled, missing a leg, and whoever finds that leg will gain astonishing powers. Hot on the trail is Lara’s nemesis, Lancaster Urdmann, now working for an unknown employer with strange abilities. As Lara jets from Siberia to Australia to Rio de Janiero, she is drawn into an age-old conflict of secret societies, intrigue, and death. . . .
After completing a near-fatal mission in the mysterious cloud forests of Peru, Lara Croft flies to Warsaw to tackle her next assignment–and finds herself in the middle of an epic battle for the ultimate power.
Reuben Baptiste needs Lara Croft’s help transporting precious cargo. But before Reuben can reveal any details, he is murdered–and Lara signs on with Reuben’s employer, the mysterious Order of the Bronze, to avenge his death. The Order shares with Lara its greatest a bronze android, thousands of years old, with uncanny abilities. But the android is crippled, missing a leg, and whoever finds that leg will gain astonishing powers. Hot on the trail is Lara’s nemesis, Lancaster Urdmann, now working for an unknown employer with strange abilities. As Lara jets from Siberia to Australia to Rio de Janiero, she is drawn into an age-old conflict of secret societies, intrigue, and death. . . .
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 28, 2004
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James Alan Gardner
65 books279 followersRaised in Simcoe and Bradford, Ontario, James Alan Gardner earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
A graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop, Gardner has published science fiction short stories in a range of periodicals, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Amazing Stories. In 1989, his short story "Children of the Creche" was awarded the Grand Prize in the Writers of the Future contest. Two years later his story "Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large" won an Aurora Award; another story, "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream," won an Aurora and was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards.
He has written a number of novels in a "League of Peoples" universe in which murderers are defined as "dangerous non-sentients" and are killed if they try to leave their solar system by aliens who are so advanced that they think of humans like humans think of bacteria. This precludes the possibility of interstellar wars.
He has also explored themes of gender in his novels, including Commitment Hour in which people change sex every year, and Vigilant in which group marriages are traditional.
Gardner is also an educator and technical writer. His book Learning UNIX is used as a textbook in some Canadian universities.
A Grand Prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest, he lives with his family in Waterloo, Ontario.
A graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop, Gardner has published science fiction short stories in a range of periodicals, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Amazing Stories. In 1989, his short story "Children of the Creche" was awarded the Grand Prize in the Writers of the Future contest. Two years later his story "Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large" won an Aurora Award; another story, "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream," won an Aurora and was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards.
He has written a number of novels in a "League of Peoples" universe in which murderers are defined as "dangerous non-sentients" and are killed if they try to leave their solar system by aliens who are so advanced that they think of humans like humans think of bacteria. This precludes the possibility of interstellar wars.
He has also explored themes of gender in his novels, including Commitment Hour in which people change sex every year, and Vigilant in which group marriages are traditional.
Gardner is also an educator and technical writer. His book Learning UNIX is used as a textbook in some Canadian universities.
A Grand Prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest, he lives with his family in Waterloo, Ontario.
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I don’t know why, I expected this to be the best of all three… sadly it wasn’t. Not the worst, but definitely not the best. And though in so many aspects I liked it, in the end I was disappointed by some details that seem to be the curse of all TR novels, movies or comics which are… well, nope, not yet. We’ll talk about that later. Right now, as always, I must say that this review contains SPOILERS, so it’s at your choice if you keep on reading or not. Also, I hope this review will be useful for TR fans - if you can reach the end, because it’s long af.
First of all, don’t let the cover fool you, as it happens with the two previous titles, this story has nothing to do with a TR game storyline, it’s not a prequel, nor a sequel, and of course it’s not related with TRAOD. The cover with Lara and Eckhardt is just a promotional image since when this novel was published – January 2005 – Core Design still is mentioned as owner of the franchise and TRAOD was, back then, the last released game.
So this is, yet again, another story, a new story exclusively built up by the author, J.A. Gardner, which is a science-fiction writer – and it becomes obvious when reading his novel. Also, he links his story with some hints of the previous novel – The Lost Cult, but that’s all. As for the rest, and despite the little efforts to link his writing to TR and Lara Croft’s canon, this is entirely a new story.
First problem: boring storyline. I’m sorry, but I’ve to be honest. This book is so boring and uninspired, and also as slow-paced as The Lost Cult was, though both are written by different authors. But I can’t help but feel this story had such a great potential, which feels absolutely wasted when you reach the end of the book.
It’s obvious that Gardner is a sci-fi writer – something which hardly fits with Tomb Raider. And it’s the main problem of the storyline. The Egyptian myth of the god Osiris being killed, mutilated and his body parts scattered through the map by his brother and rival Seth is a good start – though part of this myth, concretely Osiris being avenged by his son Horus, was already used at Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation. Anyway, it’s even original and creative to transform the myth in the story of two rival androids, the silver one dismembering and scattering the parts of the bronze one, as an original foundation of the ancient myth. Even Bronze having a strong sense of justice and serving mankind as some kind of unbiased Robocop – and Silver being a hedonist who only exists to enjoy earthly pleasures, is a good, creative idea with a lot of potential – the fighting opposites, righteousness versus lust, justice versus idleness, cynicism versus hedonism.
But that’s as far as it goes. The entire storyline it’s reduced to describe how Lara goes and gets the missing leg, without going deep in the background story of the androids and why each one has an unique feature, where they come from, etc. And it’s not a short book – 294 pages, so, what’s the author describing all this time?
The first part of the book its focused on tell us how Lara meets Reuben, who’s badly injured after being shot by Urdmann’s minions, and there’s a long, very long scene in which Lara fights, one by one, all the mercs in an illegal medical clinic in Warsaw to save Reuben from his pursuers – though to be honest, this is the funniest part of the book. This lasts like 53 pages (!!!) until the real plot is disclosed: the existence of the Order, the purpose of Bronze, and Reuben’s murder. Then, the real adventure starts at page 91 and with it, the most boring part of the book, which sadly lasts to… the very end of it. Just a lineal description of Lara going there, and there, and there, and there, and… ooops, the end. The predictable, no surprising at all, end. Just. Boring.
The storyline of The Man of Bronze doesn’t just link to the Osiris-Seth Egyptian myth, but to the ancient Jewish legend of the Golem, the conscious authomat whose feature can be also seen in Bronze and Silver.
Also, most of the narration focus on Lara – who, for the first time in TR novels, speaks to us in first person, explaining every detail and decision she is taking at every moment. What she’s gonna do, when and how she changes strategy, long, never-ending descriptions of weapons, how to use them, its pros, its flaws… which would be really nice if not taking entire paragraphs between one action and another because she’s explaining everything she was going to do in the meanwhile, instead of just describing how she actually does it. This totally breaks the pace of the book.
Second and main problem: out-of-character shit. Well, it’s the main problem of any non-game-related stuff, isn’t it? The author thinks he knows about Lara… and fails and the deepest, more complex side of her. The first flaw we find is that in this book, Lara’s not interested at all in recover Bronze’s scattered limbs. She just gets involved because a friend asks for help. And then, she just goes because he’s murdered and she wants to avenge him… working for the sames who put him in that danger, by the way. But she doesn’t care about the story of the androids and from where Bronze gets its strict sense of justice and Silver his desire for pleasure, despite they are ancient, very ancient, intelligent, wit-gifted and conscious artefacts. She just doesn’t give a shit about nothing of all it. And at the end of the book, she just walks away and forgets about it, without taking nothing with her, without asking questions. Like if all this just bored her.
I’m sorry, but that’s not how Lara Croft is. She’s always curious about myths, and legends, and artefacts. Her bored, uninterested attitude during all the book contrasts with the several dangers she faces and the risks she takes just for… avenging a friend? And what’s the revenge? Because in the end, Reuben remains dead, some of her friends and helpers died in the meanwhile too, and, despite that the baddies – how not, are killed, she gets nothing in exchange for her services to the Order. So in the end she just works for spiteful killing. Just… pointless. Even more for Lara Croft.
Yeah, this resembles a lot TRAOD storyline… -did you copy something, Gardner?- Anyway, while in TRAOD she acts not just for avenging Werner, but also out of curiosity and yep, also a sense of justice, in this book it’s just about revenge, on the murder of a character who doesn’t appear enough time for the reader to relate to him. Meh.
In the end, I must say this book it’s not the best of the three TR novels from Core’s era, but it’s not the worst. That sad honor still goes to The Lost Cult, and yep, I’m implying The Amulet of Power is the best of all three – the best well-researched, the best Lara Croft’s characterization, and the funniest to read.
The Man of Bronze is not as boring as The Lost Cult – I’ve to give it the fact that the idea of merging the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris and Seth with the Golem legend and revamping it into some futurist, sci-fi stuff as two metallic androids with self-conscience but different motivations is kinda original, creative and interesting. Sadly this storyline is not, as told previously, exploited in all its potential. Instead, the author prefers to waste pages and pages describing Lara describing her decisions – yeah, the repeated word is not a typo, and also describing Lara’s gear and weapons in some kind of Bond’s paraphernalia gibberish – nothing to do with Lara’s gear and weapons in real games. I mean, double pistols activated by voice??? In a book where she’s always concerned of not speaking in loud voice before her enemies, so they couldn’t locate her? C'mon!!!
Also, Lara’s characterization is not so bad – it’s better than in The Lost Cult, but not as good as in The Amulet of Power. Here she is clever, she is relentless, she is ruthless, but sadly there’s this femme fatale and objectifying stuff that totally ruins her characterization, together with her utter lack of interest on the artefact she is searching and the story of both androids… which doesn’t suit the real Lara Croft.
So… my advice? If you’ve to read TR novels, definitely The Amulet of Power is the best of all three – the most similar to a real TR with a real Lara Croft. The other two resemble more TR movies and are full of some Bond and sci-fi stuff who doesn’t suit the series at all. And sadly, the three of them contain some objectifying, unnecessary sexualizing stuff.
In the end, they are worthwhile only if you want to enjoy some TR adventures, based loosely on the games, but don’t expect anything glorious, extremely good or even any kind of sequel or extra content to the games, because those are not it.
I don’t know why, I expected this to be the best of all three… sadly it wasn’t. Not the worst, but definitely not the best. And though in so many aspects I liked it, in the end I was disappointed by some details that seem to be the curse of all TR novels, movies or comics which are… well, nope, not yet. We’ll talk about that later. Right now, as always, I must say that this review contains SPOILERS, so it’s at your choice if you keep on reading or not. Also, I hope this review will be useful for TR fans - if you can reach the end, because it’s long af.
First of all, don’t let the cover fool you, as it happens with the two previous titles, this story has nothing to do with a TR game storyline, it’s not a prequel, nor a sequel, and of course it’s not related with TRAOD. The cover with Lara and Eckhardt is just a promotional image since when this novel was published – January 2005 – Core Design still is mentioned as owner of the franchise and TRAOD was, back then, the last released game.
So this is, yet again, another story, a new story exclusively built up by the author, J.A. Gardner, which is a science-fiction writer – and it becomes obvious when reading his novel. Also, he links his story with some hints of the previous novel – The Lost Cult, but that’s all. As for the rest, and despite the little efforts to link his writing to TR and Lara Croft’s canon, this is entirely a new story.
First problem: boring storyline. I’m sorry, but I’ve to be honest. This book is so boring and uninspired, and also as slow-paced as The Lost Cult was, though both are written by different authors. But I can’t help but feel this story had such a great potential, which feels absolutely wasted when you reach the end of the book.
It’s obvious that Gardner is a sci-fi writer – something which hardly fits with Tomb Raider. And it’s the main problem of the storyline. The Egyptian myth of the god Osiris being killed, mutilated and his body parts scattered through the map by his brother and rival Seth is a good start – though part of this myth, concretely Osiris being avenged by his son Horus, was already used at Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation. Anyway, it’s even original and creative to transform the myth in the story of two rival androids, the silver one dismembering and scattering the parts of the bronze one, as an original foundation of the ancient myth. Even Bronze having a strong sense of justice and serving mankind as some kind of unbiased Robocop – and Silver being a hedonist who only exists to enjoy earthly pleasures, is a good, creative idea with a lot of potential – the fighting opposites, righteousness versus lust, justice versus idleness, cynicism versus hedonism.
But that’s as far as it goes. The entire storyline it’s reduced to describe how Lara goes and gets the missing leg, without going deep in the background story of the androids and why each one has an unique feature, where they come from, etc. And it’s not a short book – 294 pages, so, what’s the author describing all this time?
The first part of the book its focused on tell us how Lara meets Reuben, who’s badly injured after being shot by Urdmann’s minions, and there’s a long, very long scene in which Lara fights, one by one, all the mercs in an illegal medical clinic in Warsaw to save Reuben from his pursuers – though to be honest, this is the funniest part of the book. This lasts like 53 pages (!!!) until the real plot is disclosed: the existence of the Order, the purpose of Bronze, and Reuben’s murder. Then, the real adventure starts at page 91 and with it, the most boring part of the book, which sadly lasts to… the very end of it. Just a lineal description of Lara going there, and there, and there, and there, and… ooops, the end. The predictable, no surprising at all, end. Just. Boring.
The storyline of The Man of Bronze doesn’t just link to the Osiris-Seth Egyptian myth, but to the ancient Jewish legend of the Golem, the conscious authomat whose feature can be also seen in Bronze and Silver.
Also, most of the narration focus on Lara – who, for the first time in TR novels, speaks to us in first person, explaining every detail and decision she is taking at every moment. What she’s gonna do, when and how she changes strategy, long, never-ending descriptions of weapons, how to use them, its pros, its flaws… which would be really nice if not taking entire paragraphs between one action and another because she’s explaining everything she was going to do in the meanwhile, instead of just describing how she actually does it. This totally breaks the pace of the book.
Second and main problem: out-of-character shit. Well, it’s the main problem of any non-game-related stuff, isn’t it? The author thinks he knows about Lara… and fails and the deepest, more complex side of her. The first flaw we find is that in this book, Lara’s not interested at all in recover Bronze’s scattered limbs. She just gets involved because a friend asks for help. And then, she just goes because he’s murdered and she wants to avenge him… working for the sames who put him in that danger, by the way. But she doesn’t care about the story of the androids and from where Bronze gets its strict sense of justice and Silver his desire for pleasure, despite they are ancient, very ancient, intelligent, wit-gifted and conscious artefacts. She just doesn’t give a shit about nothing of all it. And at the end of the book, she just walks away and forgets about it, without taking nothing with her, without asking questions. Like if all this just bored her.
I’m sorry, but that’s not how Lara Croft is. She’s always curious about myths, and legends, and artefacts. Her bored, uninterested attitude during all the book contrasts with the several dangers she faces and the risks she takes just for… avenging a friend? And what’s the revenge? Because in the end, Reuben remains dead, some of her friends and helpers died in the meanwhile too, and, despite that the baddies – how not, are killed, she gets nothing in exchange for her services to the Order. So in the end she just works for spiteful killing. Just… pointless. Even more for Lara Croft.
Yeah, this resembles a lot TRAOD storyline… -did you copy something, Gardner?- Anyway, while in TRAOD she acts not just for avenging Werner, but also out of curiosity and yep, also a sense of justice, in this book it’s just about revenge, on the murder of a character who doesn’t appear enough time for the reader to relate to him. Meh.
In the end, I must say this book it’s not the best of the three TR novels from Core’s era, but it’s not the worst. That sad honor still goes to The Lost Cult, and yep, I’m implying The Amulet of Power is the best of all three – the best well-researched, the best Lara Croft’s characterization, and the funniest to read.
The Man of Bronze is not as boring as The Lost Cult – I’ve to give it the fact that the idea of merging the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris and Seth with the Golem legend and revamping it into some futurist, sci-fi stuff as two metallic androids with self-conscience but different motivations is kinda original, creative and interesting. Sadly this storyline is not, as told previously, exploited in all its potential. Instead, the author prefers to waste pages and pages describing Lara describing her decisions – yeah, the repeated word is not a typo, and also describing Lara’s gear and weapons in some kind of Bond’s paraphernalia gibberish – nothing to do with Lara’s gear and weapons in real games. I mean, double pistols activated by voice??? In a book where she’s always concerned of not speaking in loud voice before her enemies, so they couldn’t locate her? C'mon!!!
Also, Lara’s characterization is not so bad – it’s better than in The Lost Cult, but not as good as in The Amulet of Power. Here she is clever, she is relentless, she is ruthless, but sadly there’s this femme fatale and objectifying stuff that totally ruins her characterization, together with her utter lack of interest on the artefact she is searching and the story of both androids… which doesn’t suit the real Lara Croft.
So… my advice? If you’ve to read TR novels, definitely The Amulet of Power is the best of all three – the most similar to a real TR with a real Lara Croft. The other two resemble more TR movies and are full of some Bond and sci-fi stuff who doesn’t suit the series at all. And sadly, the three of them contain some objectifying, unnecessary sexualizing stuff.
In the end, they are worthwhile only if you want to enjoy some TR adventures, based loosely on the games, but don’t expect anything glorious, extremely good or even any kind of sequel or extra content to the games, because those are not it.
June 20, 2019
This book was action packed!! It picks up right after the events of the Lost Cult and has Lara racing of to help a dear friend, Reuben has a case handcuffed to his wrist and needs help getting to the Order of the Bronze after being attacked, after a lengthy fight in a medical facility, they escape and make it to the Order, only for Reuben to be killed in an explosion! Lara is then shown a man of Bronze, he is not from our world and complete except for a missing leg. Lara is sent out to find the 3 remaining pieces and bring them back, but along the way Lara runs into constant trouble!! It was a great read, I was sorry to see it end!
June 9, 2018
This is the second Tomb Raider book I’ve read, after the interesting but disappointing
Lara Croft and the Blade of Gwynnever
. This one was much better! It’s written in the first person from Lara’s POV, which was a great choice as it allows her to deliver all of her signature snark, though I’ll admit the “Okay. New strategy.” catchphrase got tedious real fast. It captured the mien of the games really well too, with the globetrotting and boss fights, and even nods to the game mechanics like rope swings and puzzles involving ancient statues.
The plot itself is one of the better sci-fi/fantasy premises I’ve read: Lara assists a seemingly immortal being that seems to be part mystical, part robotic, facing off against zombies, mutated woolly mammoths and eels, and mercenaries who can armor themselves in a subzero-temperature metallic sheath. Much of the book reads like the Hardy Boys Casefiles I grew up with, only better by virtue of having, you know, Lara fricking Croft.
My chief complaint about the book, actually, is its violence. While Lara has killed untold numbers of people in the video games, she only does so in self-defense (at least, in the ones I’ve played). In contrast, in the beginning of this novel she seems to delight in killing as many people as possible.
I would really give this book 4.5 stars, but hey, I’ll round up for Goodreads. At any rate, I can happily recommend it to other TR fans.
The plot itself is one of the better sci-fi/fantasy premises I’ve read: Lara assists a seemingly immortal being that seems to be part mystical, part robotic, facing off against zombies, mutated woolly mammoths and eels, and mercenaries who can armor themselves in a subzero-temperature metallic sheath. Much of the book reads like the Hardy Boys Casefiles I grew up with, only better by virtue of having, you know, Lara fricking Croft.
My chief complaint about the book, actually, is its violence. While Lara has killed untold numbers of people in the video games, she only does so in self-defense (at least, in the ones I’ve played). In contrast, in the beginning of this novel she seems to delight in killing as many people as possible.
I would really give this book 4.5 stars, but hey, I’ll round up for Goodreads. At any rate, I can happily recommend it to other TR fans.
September 9, 2021
This is one of the best books I've ever read. It's a stroke of genius to write a novel from the perspective of Lara Croft herself, as besides her delightfully posh mannerisms, her analytical mind and MacGyver-like planning makes the entire novel extremely engaging. You really understand how Lara Croft is at the top of her field. There isn't a single part of this story where the characterisation drops or the plot becomes dull.
The plot device is unique and lends itself well to a format that doesn't get old, and is actually laid out like a Tomb Raider game, with the setting changing every few chapters, from Tunguska to Australia to the bermuda triangle to Rio De Janiero. And along the way, Lara teaches us helpful facts about history, archaeology, and armaments. And if the reader ever feels bored, then there are bronze mammoths, bronze sea monsters, and alien robots to keep the tension up, accompanied by a new nemesis for Lara who is dastardly devious and chews an equal amount of scenery.
I would say that this book is even a better Tomb Raider experience than any of the games.
The plot device is unique and lends itself well to a format that doesn't get old, and is actually laid out like a Tomb Raider game, with the setting changing every few chapters, from Tunguska to Australia to the bermuda triangle to Rio De Janiero. And along the way, Lara teaches us helpful facts about history, archaeology, and armaments. And if the reader ever feels bored, then there are bronze mammoths, bronze sea monsters, and alien robots to keep the tension up, accompanied by a new nemesis for Lara who is dastardly devious and chews an equal amount of scenery.
I would say that this book is even a better Tomb Raider experience than any of the games.
June 26, 2019
This was the final novel in the trilogy sequel to Angel of Darkness. This one was a disappointment after the adventure of the previous two. A close friend of Lara's has a mysterious case handcuffed to him and he's reluctant to say why. After some explosions and running, they end up at a monestary that believes in assembling all the pieces of the bronze man. He's a prophet so they believe and Lara reluctantly goes on the case. She runs into an old nemesis and it turns into a crazy chase of who can locate the missing limbs first. There was some fun throwbacks to previous Tomb Raider games that I enjoyed, but on the whole this one was lackluster.
March 6, 2020
I did enjoy this having been a kind of a fan of the Tomb Raider series but I'm not hugely knowledgeable about it from the video games or comics, but I know this was from the Ps1 and Ps2 Tomb Raider games and told from the point of view from Lara and seemed more of a action story than one of a one where she raided tombs and solved puzzles like players had to do in those games, even though it contained elements of that in this. What was great about this was it did delve into the more fantastical elements of what the original Tomb Raider games had in them.
August 27, 2024
I absolutely loved this book.
I am a big Lara Croft fan and this book just hit all kind of right!
Action packed, full of adventure and witfully descriptive characters.
Gardner portrayed Lara as the courageous, witty mouthed adventurous tomb raider whilst adding some unique flare to her character.
I am a big Lara Croft fan and this book just hit all kind of right!
Action packed, full of adventure and witfully descriptive characters.
Gardner portrayed Lara as the courageous, witty mouthed adventurous tomb raider whilst adding some unique flare to her character.
February 6, 2019
Am a big fan of Lara Croft that's why I loved this book because it's jampack with action.
June 25, 2021
This book is excellent, it has my approval xd.
March 16, 2014
I was not sure when i started reading this book, but it was so good! I re-read it over and over,Loving it every time! The detail i could just picture what Lara was seeing ,like it was my story and i was going through it. I love the random little funny bits she says.Very good and i recommend this book!
May 9, 2017
This is a pretty good book based on the Tomb Raider games. It deals with the Osiris legend and takes a different look at it. We find Lara in Russia just after the events of the previous book taking on a mission when a friend is murdered. All in all, it was a fun read.
August 27, 2013
Poslední díl trilogie. Náhlá změna z vyprávění třetí osobu na ich formu, na kterou jsem si musel trochu zvykat. Ve výsledku ale opět zajímavé, navíc vyprávěné přímo Larou... Co víc si přát? :)
April 17, 2014
This series was a lot of fun for fans of Lara and her adventures. This last book in the series wasn't the best, but still a fun read.
January 10, 2017
I remember being very disappointed by this book because I had loved Gardner's previous works of science-fiction. His take on Lara Croft's world and adventures just didn't work for me, though.
July 21, 2011
Not bad for a gaming book. It read a lot like playing one of the Tomb Raider games.
September 1, 2012
Well written and funny. I really enjoyed it.
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April 14, 2017I love Lara, but I found this book jumped too quickly into the paranormal for my taste. One of my favorite things about the Lara Croft adventures of the genres is how the first part is always realistic (if you were a highly trained, super rich lady of course) and then sorta teeters off into mysticism.
However, the end was insanely gripping and I couldn't put it down.
However, the end was insanely gripping and I couldn't put it down.
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