"A strange disease that has left his brother in a vegetative state has the computer hacker and entrepreneur Arnau Queralt to undertake an archaeological investigation on the Inca Empire, the ruins of Tiwanaku and the Amazon jungle, in the wake of a lost civilization. Arnau, Marc with his friends and Lola, undertakes this journey through knowledge, discovering some unsolved mysteries in human history, the paradoxes of the theory of evolution and the true role of English in Conquest of America. "
in 2006 I was pleasantly surprised about when I read The Last Cato and fascinated me, then discovered more of his work and reading his first novella, The Amber Room, which proved a disaster book ( review), I realized how to read this author : with caution. Interestingly, Lost Dawn predates The Last Cato, and if that was excellent, what to expect of you still ... frankly, I had high expectations and left disappointed.
To begin, we have the hero, Arnau Queralt hacker and his friends Marc and Lola, and together they call themselves Root, Jabba and Proxy respectively. Yes, you say Jabba is a big fat red hair - there is no innovation here in a matter of nicknames. Being brilliant in his work, hacking dedidan like Robin Hood, noble issues. Meh.
The thing is that Arnold is super rich, has a home ultracomputarizada and is better alone than together. The story begins when Daniel's brother, Arnau, falls ill with 2 very rare disorders after studying some ancient writings and Arnau, not knowing what to do, began to study what led to his brother to the madness to find a cure .
Asensi The base used to carry After his novel is clearly intriguing (Was there or will be a perfect language, as perfect as a programming language that allows control everything by the sounds?) but the over-accumulation of information and the repetition of the same along the plot is as heavy as reading a book of ancient history. I mean, taking just 4 major chapters and an epilogue, the book has 500 pages and up to page 200 is that only begins to take shape the adventure in Peru, from the beginning until that time, Arnold and his group read all available material and it is boring to the point of making you want to leave the book aside. Not that shine not for scenes of adventures ...
Another primary key in an adventure novel is to have heroes and villains of the moment. In Lost Dawn, there is simply no villains and you may also submit to the professor Marta Torrent care as a character, but then changes the perspective of the character and becomes a help rather than a threat. It's that simple. With regard to lost ruins, it is clearer than the water that will be evidence to overcome: unlike in The Last Cato, where tests based on the 7 circles of Hell were unpredictable and amazing, here are a lot less testing and all tinged with mathematicians. Boring! If I wanted studying math, reading another book ...
inventiveness comes as the lost civilization comes into play, without disclosing further details of the plot, I can say that here the woman's imagination takes flight and there were even times in which he could not follow thread to their madness.
thing that puts a halt to this Matilde Asensi's novel which leaves no room for surprise. We all know how it will end the novel from the start, at least if the over had risked more, like, killing a character to put more tension to the case, would have been great, but no. Asensi play it safe and fails to engage the reader.
I do not want to stop reading it because I know that may surprise as it did with The Last Cato, but if after The Amber Room and The Source Lost , two novels fairly regular, I do not know to wait. Well, yes, something I can expect, that I was hooked again.
Rating: Regular
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