Tom Egeland

I loved the basic idea of this book, vikings sailing to egypt. After all they traded along the north coast of africa so there is no good reason why they couldn't have sailed up the nile.

However while the idea is great the book itself is terrible. It is badly written and the characters are poorly developed. The only reason I finished this book was for a book group challenge.

READ IN DUTCH

This book is described as The Norwegian Da-Vinci Code, but as it appears this book was written first, should it not be that The Da-Vinci Code is the American Relic?



In the crazy around this type of book after the hype of the Da-Vinci Code, this was one of the books that found it's way into the Dutch bookshops. It sounded interesting enough, so I took it with me.



It's an enjoyable read, although not really that original. I know it was written before the hype started, but I can't show more loose the feeling that it's like a checklist has been used while writing this book. It was nice to read though, the Norwegian setting is something different and I liked it. This also is the first book in the Bjørn Beltø series, and actually I'm curious to find out what happens next... show less

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This is the sequel to Relic, and some mystical Egyptian object has been found in Norway. It was left there by Vikings. I liked that idea.



The rest of the book though seemed a bit less interesting to me than the first, perhaps there was some repetition with the first book in this series. I don't really know. The ending was a bit disappointing for me as well. I still liked to read it, it was a quick read, but I haven't read any of the other books in this series. (I'm not even sure show more they were translated, and my Norwegian isn't really wonderful). show less

С елементарно действие и език, сякаш написана от дете, книгата се рекламира с викингска корица и описание, но авторът използва по-голямата част от текста за да описва ежедневието на разни второстепенни герои от норвежкото общество, за които на никого не му пука.