The Third Gate

A Lincoln Child book fills the hollow left by the X-Files - this book about Egyptian curses, NDAs and a remote scientific expedition in a deadly swamp is just what I needed

This book was really terrible. I loved the premise and was looking forward to the story but the characters felt shallow and the dialogue was not natural. The interaction between characters felt more like a daytime soap opera. I'm not familiar with Childs other works but this was not good. Like other have mentioned there are a lot of technical problems too, each minor but there are so many. The best example is pulling up a “URL page” I assumed the author meant web page or URL but URL page? You can only see that kind of thing so many times before you want to stop reading.

Well-written thriller featuring Egyptology, cutting-edge science and paranormal stuff. I really don't like paranormal stuff.

Lee Child can move a plot. Because I'm not a fan of the fantasy genre I skim read this one.

Who doesn't like a good story about the search for an ancient Egyptian tomb with a curse attached? Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston are authors of one of my favorites series of books—the Pendergast novels. I'm glad to see Child continue their sense of adventure on his own. I enjoyed reading The Third Gate as much as reading Preston's' The Codex.