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The novel picks up Lara's journey immediately following the game's ending. Haunted by what she was forced to endure in order to survive her first adventure, Lara Croft� wants only to put her horrifying ordeal on Yamatai island behind her. Her modest wish shatters as she's plunged into a frantic race to save her best friend Sam from a toxic overdose. Desperate for a remedy, Lara searches for anything that could help Sam. A wisp of hope arising from a myth gives Lara purpose: the story of an ancient and mysterious artifact that could heal her dying friend, and possibly help explain the supernatural events she witnessed on Yamatai.
However, Lara is not alone in her pursuit of the treasure. A nefarious magnate, a shadow society, and lethal henchmen will stop at nothing to exploit the powerful relic for their own ends. The hunt drives Lara across the globe, through a twisted web of conspiracy, suspicious contacts, and life-or-death intrigue, as she seeks salvation for her friend and the truth behind the legendary talisman.
- Sales Rank: #476744 in Books
- Published on: 2014-10-20
- Released on: 2014-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .88" w x 5.38" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
A Simplified Adventure | RealGamerNewz Review
By Jermain Jackson
Fellow RGN reviewer Augustus Bel writes:
Tomb Raider: The Ten Thousand Immortals by bestselling British novelist and comic book writer, Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent, is a novel continuing Lara Croft’s adventure and takes place between the events on Yamatai in the Tomb Raider reboot and the next to be released game title. This tale is considered cannon and acknowledge as such by developer Crystal Dynamics.
The story starts off with Lara being thrown into a panic attack by the startling and loud backfire of a neighbor’s car engine. As she takes to the streets of London, for a therapeutic walk to soothe her nerves, she receives a call informing her that Sam (best friend, roommate and designated damsel in distress), has been admitted into a hospital. Upon her arrival, Lara discovers her friend is in a coma suspected to be induced by a drug overdose. However, having both recently survived supernatural events, Lara has her own suspicions about the cause of Sam’s condition. Therein, begins the quest to find an artifact of legend with healing capabilities able to restore her friend to health.
Lara travels to several locations around Europe in search of information and leads, meeting with professors, antique collectors and shady business men with auras of danger. In her pursuit of the relic, she finds there are others who would kill without hesitation to gain possession of it and Lara must fight for her life in order to save Sam’s. Savvy as she is, Lara is able to gain the trust and employ the help of hastily made acquaintances, using their skills and knowledge to advance her progress or escape danger as necessary.
Story line aside, the delivery left more to be desired. Everything was over simplified, there were no puzzles or need for in depth thinking, answers were basically thrown at her and the vocabulary and descriptions were basic. The action scenes were fun, but the majority of the down time was spent giving trivial descriptions of Lara navigating city streets and public transportation; if only to display her observation skills and paranoia, to then watch them fail her miserably on more than one occasion. Having seen and experienced the trials of Yamatai alongside reboot Lara, there are certain things she should definitely be able to handle. Not so, in this novel. It’s as if she’s starting over in skill level. Retaining the memory of her previous adventure, but none of the character development.
Final Verdict:
I will not claim to not have enjoyed the book at all, but my expectations for a Tomb Raider title were not met and often times I found myself bored and actually making an effort to continue reading. I would recommend this novel to a younger audience, not formally acquainted to classic Lara or reboot Lara for that matter. Large font, basic vocabulary and simple writing earned this novel a 7.2 rating.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A great explorer once said - "where the Hell's the exploration?!"
By Damian Jansen
TL,DR: Not a good book. Would not recommend.
The writing takes the form of a story aimed at young readers with a very short attention span. The descriptive aspects are very light, offering the bare minimum for understanding the scenes but occasionally breaking out into (seemingly unnecessary) spats of rough detail. There were many places (e.g. Lara's paranoid observation of the general public) where the author could have leapt into great detail to display her uncanny attention to it. Or an artefact. Or location. Unfortunately, the writing is basically do that, said this, unconvincing attitude towards whatever.
There are many, many general errors of creative writing throughout - repeatedly starting sentences with a pronoun, confusing movement, introducing characters and narrating from their viewpoint without any real purpose - that it feels like the story would be better suited to a graphic novel, which the author is better known for. Most annoyingly, the author switches context/perspective almost mid paragraph on many occasions, breaking the story's stride and flow. I found myself re-reading some sentences because I misinterpreted who the current actor was.
Lara's behaviour is greatly inconsistent, floating between panic induced hysteria at the sound of a car backfire to natural born killer in the event of actual risk of injury or death. Her friend Sam, being the sole driving force in her demanding quest to find an artefact that may or may not exist with little or no time to succeed, is all but forgotten while she hangs out with a few people she bumps into at the train station.
Sam herself is little more than a Himiko zombie who, most disappointingly, could have been utilised as a harrowing force on Lara's psyche. Imagine if Sam were properly possessed by the Himiko demon, flying into a violent rage every time Lara approached! The writer also makes the great error of "assumed knowledge" and we barely know who Sam is, or even why Lara cares about her so much. So why do we care about her?
Ares, the main antagonist of the book, is greatly under-represented. He makes an impression as the "guy who gets whatever he wants" but never really leaves a mark. Along with Kennard, the "anti-hero" and the seemingly pointless Mr Fife with his Dumb and Dumber bodyguards (of who Frink seems to be selectively immortal), there's no real worthwhile connection that Lara is a part of. In fact, Lara evolves from the shining light of mythical archaeology to little more than a chihuahua with a tennis ball everyone wants.
The story's overall concept is really nice. No, honestly - a hunt for fragments of the Golden Fleece to save her friend from demonic annihilation, stuck between two opposing factions... cool stuff. But it's a massive stretch from point A to point Fleece. From there it seems like excuses to go to random places around the globe.
Oh, and the author completely neglected the one major complaint about Tomb Raider, the game - EXPLORATION! A dig site, a boat, a few houses, and a hole in the ground, that's all we get.
In the end, I still don't know where Fife and Frink the Immortal fit into it all...
Ultimately, there's no "weave" between the pivotal characters and story arcs. There's vague interaction, until everyone is thrown together in the end.
The ending itself was, to be blunt, woeful. The focal point of Lara's endeavour - Sam - was basically resolved in "whatever I did, yep that fixed it" in a she'll be right mate fashion. Assumably meant to be 'mysterious' it comes off as an exhausted attempt at finishing a book when the fun "endgame" part was done. Ares' exit was anti-climatic, at best.
As an aside, Kennard's mercy shot would have got himself killed, but let's just ignore physics for the sake of plot.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A canon entry that sadly falls far short of expectations
By Max Leviton
Continuing where the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot game ended, this book picks up shortly after. It takes place before the canon comics as well. The basic plot is that Sam is showing signs of having problems related to the attempted possession by Himiko so Lara sets off to find the Golden Fleece in attempt to help.
I really wanted to like this novel. I am a huge fan of the games and the tie in comics weren't bad either. This book however leaves much to be desired. The basic premise is pretty good but the delivery is lack luster. The language feels like it was written for preteens and the chapters and even pages end on very odd and inconsistent spacing. It is disconcerting and distracts from the story which I already had to force myself to focus on. By the end of the game Lara has come to believe in supernatural occurrences yet here she spends 90% of the novel trying to convince herself and the reader that the supernatural is not real, never was real and couldn't possibly be real. It simply doesn't fit the characterization from the game. Another problem is that the main story is written third person limited following Lara only to suddenly switch to a different character's perspective. Normally this isn't a problem as many books can jump perspective with little issues but in this one, the shift comes with no transition. There are no chapter jumps, no asterisks, not even any spaces between the paragraphs with perspective shifts. Normally there is some way to tell if you are reading about a different character from visual cues but here you could be halfway through a new paragraph before realizing from context that we have jumped to looking through another's eyes. It then jumps back a paragraph or two down with again no transitions. It made many scenes confusing and hard to follow. A further issue with the story is that things just seem to happen for the sake of conflict with no real effort made into connecting the events beyond needing something exciting to spice up the story. The main driving point of the novel doesn't even seem to be important by the end as it didn't seem to do much to solve the issue at all.
After all the negative there are some positives. Most of the characterization from the game is still inherent in the characters and it works. The PTSD that Lara is experiencing is also rather well shown as are the anxiety attacks. It also makes good use of British English rather than American English which helps to keep things more realistic.
Overall I think this novel probably deserves 2 stars but it did get some things right so I bumped it up. In closing, to me it's sad that this is the official novel. I've read several fanfics whose writing and storylines are leagues better. I had hoped for so much more and was extremely disappointed.
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