This is a novelization of a sequel to a movie based on a video game. The only way it could be more geeky were if there was a comic book in its lineage somewhere (yes, I know the game series has a comic book based on it, but that’s not directly in this book’s pedigree, so it doesn’t count).<\/p>\n
The book follows the movie, wherein Lara Croft seeks vengeance on the murderers of a couple of childhood friends and to prevent a scientist who’s into selling bio-weapons from acquiring Pandora’s Box and all that it holds. It’s a pretty quick bit of reading and really did make me want to watch the film, its predecessor, and a raft of other titles from King Solomon’s Mines<\/i>\/Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold<\/i>, Romancing the Stone<\/i>\/Jewel of the Nile<\/i>, Firewalker<\/i>, and the host of other Indiana Jones knockoffs.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, though, the book does do some in-filling of character development, and it might overdevelop a character and make him to sympathetic for his ultimate fate. Much of that doesn’t serve the actual story well as it makes the end a bit shocking.<\/p>\n
But a nice bit of filler between the heady novels in my queue.<\/p>\n