A fun read and you should read the prequel, Relic before this. The mystery happens below the streets of Manhattan. I find Pendergast early books "strange" with horror feel than the recent ones... in a good way.

Margo Green, Agent Pendergast, and NYPD Detective Vincent D'Agosta return when corpses start appearing that look like the crime scenes from The Relic. This is a worthy successor to the first book. It doesn't have the same thrills as the first novel as there is some "Haven't we seen this before?" moments. I think the series does get even better once the authors move completely onto new cases involving Agent Pendergast. If you enjoy reading these and plan on continuing, do yourself a favor and rea...

Oh the humanity…the expectation-murdering ugh of the dreadful sequel to the quality original. Unfortunately they happen. Some are a menace to the phantoms of our youthful memories: …others make us long for murderous Revenge on the studio that spawned it from their retched, greed-dripping Jaws. Some sequels have plot/acting/directing so loaded with mockery- needed fail that we are transformed into staunch proponents of the virtues of franchise euthanasia: …and some sequels are just big,

Beneath Manhattan hides an elaborate maze of tunnels. Homeless have lived their for decades. More than a dozen different levels exist, and depending on how far you go, the evil that lurks increases. Headless corpses are found above ground near various subway stations. Did the museum team not kill the beast in the first book, Relic, by Douglas Preston and Lee Child? It seems something in their plans went awry, and what us readers thought happened is not the truth. In Reliquary, it all comes flood...

The excellent continuation of the Pendergast series.

If reading Relic was the literary equivalent of eating a hot dog, reading Reliquary is like eating a chili cheese dog with extra onions—it’s more of everything that was good (and also heartburn-inducing) about its predecessor. Higher stakes, a more elaborate (and ridiculous) mystery, crazier science/pseudo-science…heck, it even threw in a Scooby-Doo-esque villain (“I’d have gotten away with it, too, if you meddling FBI geniuses with cloying southern accents hadn’t stopped me!”). So, chances are,...

”Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast is generally described as being stoically aloof and eccentric, though his ineffable politeness and unerring intellect imbue him with an irresistible charm or enigmatic sense of danger if the occasion should call for it. Well-learned in many subjects, he converses easily with doctors, scientists, intellectuals, vagabonds, highly specialized masters of specific disciplines, and people of a wide variety of language and culture alike. He is a master of psychological m...

The author's sequel to Relic picks up about 1.5 years after the events chronicled there and like Relic, Reliquary packs a punch. Relic left off with an epilogue where George, one of the scientists at the museum, was experimenting with the plant that the Museum Beast craved (leaving plenty of room for this follow up novel). Turns out, the drug he concocted may have not induced quite the same changes (e.g., creating another Museum Beast) but some serious changes nonetheless...Reliquary starts off

Eighteen months before, she had stared into the face of Mbwun, seen her reflection in its feral red eyes.First of all: the cover of Reliquary is misleading. I have a vague suspicion that the critter depicted is a rather innocuous and extraordinarily baboon-like depiction of Mbwun, because it certainly isn’t a Wrinkler. It was important for me to get that off my chest, because Reliquary is the first Pendergast novel that I read out of sequence. Why? Well, the closing chapters of Relic and the cov...

Enjoyable sequel to Relic - it has the same fab characters and the same spooky story but this time set in the underground tunnels of New York. Love all the 'science' bits as before and just think it's a fun creepy story.To add to the hilarity I listened to this one on audio and the man talking in a girl's voice made me laugh so much and then when they were denoting a thought rather than something said aloud they used an 'echo' effect - heehee! (I am so childish sometimes!)

4.3 rounded down. A very fun book that is just a tiny step down from the awesomeness that was book 1. The ending was a little too much "Really..?" and "That's who..." for me but not enough so that it took away from the overall enjoyment of the whole thing. I thought it was much more violent than its predecessor, but that is a good thing with me and it definitely had a lot more going on peripherally with many side plots and extra characters. I liked it a lot and it was a good way to spend a coupl...

With that tantalizing wrap-up of Relic, I couldn’t wait to revisit the story and characters in Reliquary. I’m glad the authors decided to continue the story of Mbwun right off, although it’s clear after the prologue that much has happened and mutated behind the scenes.You get a return of the familiar characters, but most have changed a little, partly from the events they survived and partly from the developments which befell them as a consequence of those events. Margo has rounded out to be a li...

Seems like a bit of a cash grab. The novel Relic was a huge success and made into a fairly successful, albeit bad, movie.Naturally, the authors wanted to make a sequel. I don't blame them. The book seems about half baked, and about ten years behind the times (1997). There's a lot of pseudo-science, but it's like the authors read Bonfire of the Vanities, and tried to shove it into a Jaws rip off. There's even a pompous author's statement about homelessness, as if they didn't realize that homeless...

Reliquary is to Relic what Aliens is to Alien. Both are them are great books (and movies) and while the first book (movie) focuses on a single predator in a closed space, the latter focuses on multiple predators in larger space.Reliquary, while being as intense as Relic, also manages to have time for character development. In addition to the gang of four we saw in Relic (Pendergast, D'Agosta, Margo & Bill), we have new characters who also have their own unique stories.The great writing as well a...

This was good - not quite as tight of a story as Relic, but I enjoyed the whole thing. It is fun to read (or in this case, listen to) another story with the same characters to see how they grow and change. It starts to make you wonder how far the author will be willing to go with characters you have come to know well . . .