About twenty-five years have passed since a nuclear apocalypse nearly obliterated life on Earth. Hadrian Boone was a survivor, one of the founders of the Carthage, but after being a community leader early on, he's now a disgraced criminal. What was an agrarian attempt at rebuilding has turned into...
Well-written, but extremely depressing! Multiple children commit suicide; dogs are brutalized, killed, eaten; and even in a society which has had the ultimate example of why greed and conflict are not the right keystones for a civilization, humans continue to look out for themselves first.Ugh, I ne...
I thought I'd already reviewed this book, but obviously not. There isn't all that much to add to my earlier reviews, except for one thing. At the start of this book I feared the worst for the hero and others. After I'd finished the book at least I can hope for more titles in the series, which is gre...
I really enjoyed this novel. A mystery novel that is much more than just a mystery novel. It's a good novel. Set in Tibet somewhere in the late XXe century. It takes the reader inside a prisoner labour camp in the region of Lhadrung. Political games, conspiracies, sacrifice and at the centre of it a...
After reading three books in this series, my expectations were high and this book didn't disappoint me. Just like the other three, this was brilliant, sad, haunting... I can recommend this to anyone who likes a thrilling and absorbing story and to anyone interested in Tibetan culture.
When I first came across Eliot Pattison's mysteries set in Tibet, I was thrilled. Tibetan culture is something I've been interested in for years, in fact ever since I first read Tintin in Tibet. My love for Tibet only increased when I discovered Tibetan dogs (but that's another story.) Like the two ...
Eliot Pattison's The Skull Mantra is an elegant literary mystery set in contemporary Tibet. This is an unusual setting for a detective novel yet the author fills it with detailed and knowledgeable information of the land, the people, and the religion. The novel can be read for either the mystery or ...
I just couldn't get into this book. It was so slow-moving and the descriptions of the torture just too horrific. It's too bad because it sounded like it would be right up my alley.
This is the second 'Shan Tao Yun' novel, the first, The Skull Mantra, I had read back in March and loved it to a 5 star result. As with the first novel, this sent me scurrying off reading back-up material such as holy mountains of the Himalya, mudrã and the Panchen LamaFive stars from me.
This is the second story of Shan Tao Yun, the former Beijing investigator turned prisoner and Buddhist. He's sent to investigate the death of a venerated Buddhist teacher and lama and finds himself embroiled in the politics of a different kind.There are stretches of this book that resonated deeply w...
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