Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx by Max McCoy
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Book Reviews of Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx
Book Review: Please...may I have some more?
Summary: 4 Stars
Read through the entire series and have been disappointed that this was the final volume in the series. Perhaps with the much anticipated Indy IV movie in the works, we can get some more novels.These books are a lot of fun and breezy Summer reads. Recommended!
Book Review: I liked it . . .
Summary: 4 Stars
Especially the Japanese intelligence agent. The character was very interesting. The whole thing with mummy factory in Cairo . . . brrrr! I had nightmares about that, when I finally got sleep.Book Review: Not the best...
Summary: 3 Stars
I have read all of Rob MacGregor's, one of Caiden's (very poor Indiana Jones rendition in my opinion) and now all of Max McCoy's. First off I loved the early stories telling how Indy became an achaeologist, his college years, and the love of his life. Rob MacGregor captured the magic of Indiana Jones, and quite frankly the personality that we already knew from the three movies. He established a great continuity that I had hoped would follow over into rest of the books, but sadly did not once Martin Caiden took over the pen. I figured that Max McCoy would carry on with the continuity, but again I was disappointed. Something that Rob MacGregor made clear in Dance of the Giants, Seven Veils, and the Genesis Deluge was that Indiana Jones was married at one point in his life to a woman named Deirdre Campbell. In this book however, Faye Meskelyne asks if he had ever been married, and Indy replied "No I have never been married before." So whatever was established by MacGregor, was totally ignored by McCoy. Still Max gave out four really good novels, and I hope that in the future, if the Indiana Jones series is revived that the author sticks to the previous continuity of the other books.Book Review: A bit confusing...
Summary: 3 Stars
While I must say that Max McCoy is my favorite of the Indiana Jones authors, and I'm sorry that this is his last book, Secret of the Sphinx had a couple of odd moments in it. There are veiled references to Indy looking older than he should and cryptic comments about past events that we don't seem to be privy to. Most disapointing is the total lack of explanation as to why they went to Egypt... a vital bit, considering the title. I've heard McCoy had "creative differences" with Bantam on this book... something to do with time travel. It makes me wonder if they've clipped passages from the book.Book Review: Weak.....I can't believe we waited all that time for this...
Summary: 3 Stars
I was mildly intrigued by the concept, but it was under developed, as was every locale and the point of being there. I was disturbed by the fact on page 71 Indy replies to questions from Faye by telling her that he had never been married, when in fact he met and married Deidre Campbell before she died. This all occured in the first six novels by Rob MacGregor, which by the way is by far the best of the IJ writers.