The Secret of the Stones by Earnest Dempsey Series: Sean Wyatt#1
Publisher: Enclave Publishing
Publication Date: June 26, 2018
Source: Borrowed from Amazon Prime Reading Library.
Rating:
Goodreads Synopsis:
They tried to kill him to cover up an ancient secret. Now Sean Wyatt is plunged head first into a race against time to save his best friend and the lives of billions.
A four thousand year old mystery lurks in the hills of Georgia. While investigating a strange series of ancient symbols, an archaeologist vanishes, and a professor he entrusted with the secret is murdered.
Former government agent, Sean Wyatt, learns of his friend's disappearance and the murder. Now he must unravel the clues to the ancient mystery that holds incredible power.
To save his friend, Sean will have to fight off highly trained mercenaries in hand to hand combat, violent shootouts, and high speed car chases through the Blue Ridge Mountains. And in the end, what he learns will change the history books as we know them.
The Secret of the Stones is packed with suspense and mystery, conspiracies and fascinating secret societies, and leaves you turning the pages late into the night in USA Today Bestseller Ernest Dempsey's breakthrough international adventure series.
Don't miss this story that takes you through the southern United States on a wild adventure that could change the shape of civilization.
Review:
I picked this book up for a virtual book club with some family and friends and found it surprisingly engaging and fun. We had great conversations about it and so the review below is kind of a 'group' review so to speak based on all those talks.
A good description of The Secret of the Stones is Dan Brown books, National Treasure, Native American lore and Indiana Jones all meet up and have a grand old time. There is a lot there, I know, but it was very entertaining.
The plot is about a group of people all looking for an ancient secret place said to be a hoard of gold and treasure called the Golden Chambers. When the book begins there is a death, a lot of mysterious conversations, and a person gets taken.
Overall, the plot was action packed and really kept us all interested. The story is told from multiple points of view, which all come together nicely at the end.
Sean Wyatt is the main character of this book and series and he is trying to find the person that has been taken, which is his long-time friend. Sean is a former secret agent and now works with the International Archaeological Agency finding lost items and returning them where they should be. Other characters include a Journalist - Allyson, some detectives, and various baddies.
Like I said, I read this for a book club, so book club a member took it upon himself to do a lot of background research while we were reading. He looked up the locations of the sites and just about all of them were real, making the overall story a bit cooler. He looked up the uniforms mentioned in the prologue and found some discrepancies, but he also called a few of the twists that were to come.
Some criticisms:
There were some things that we weren't cool with, the female presence in this book is LACKING, severely. There are maybe 5 women in the book, many are glossed over, and the one that is there looks like she might become a love interest.
There wasn't a lot of character development either, but mostly case, which is fine, but I wanted to see more character progression to really have me invested in what was happening to them.
The author also spent a lot of time on weird details that inevitably did not have anything to do with the plot, maybe they come into play in the series but they seemed more like a show-off move.
If you are looking for something fast-paces and enjoyed National Treasure, Indiana Jones, OR the Dan Brown books - you very well may enjoy this one. And at the time of writing this review, this book is part of the Amazon Prime Library were you can borrow the book for free if you are a Prime member.
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