Seven Deadly Wonders: A Novel

Fun, fast paced read, mixing adventure and history. Way too implausible to be in the same class with other similar writers like James Rollins.

simply superb

A very well written book that takes the reader around the world in search of the lost wonders of the ancient world

This book is called 'Seven Ancient Wonders'

A good fun read.

Tepid is a good description for this unexciting work, considering there can be so much more. Perhaps Reilly was attempting to cramp too much into one volume. While it is definitely a knock-off of Indiana Jones in the search of a pyramid capstone scatters around the world by Alexander the Great, the work is less than thrilling and unpredictable. The plot revolves more on the events than...more

Tepid is a good description for this unexciting work, considering there can be so much more. Perhaps Reilly was attempting to cramp too much into one volume. While it is definitely a knock-off of Indiana Jones in the search of a pyramid capstone scatters around the world by Alexander the Great, the work is less than thrilling and unpredictable. The plot revolves more on the events than characters, failing to appeal to the readers on the villains and heroes. The ending was also rather unexciting and predictable, with no additional twist put in to bring it to a climax.   hide

this is a keeper

Cannot wait till the 3rd book is finished!

An action adventure that pits a team of 9 that include an old man, a woman and a little girl against two world powers in a race to find the 7 pieces that assemble to be the capstone for The Great Pyramid. If they don't find the pieces in time..., the world will be destroyed. Really liked the action, a little like DaVinci Code in that there is some liberal interpretation of who really controls...more

An action adventure that pits a team of 9 that include an old man, a woman and a little girl against two world powers in a race to find the 7 pieces that assemble to be the capstone for The Great Pyramid. If they don't find the pieces in time..., the world will be destroyed. Really liked the action, a little like DaVinci Code in that there is some liberal interpretation of who really controls the power in the world, but it is fiction and makes the story feasible.   hide