Tuesday, December 02, 2008
 
Book Report: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life by Dave Stern (2003)
This is a novelization of a sequel to a movie based on a video game. The only way it could be more geeky were if there was a comic book in its lineage somewhere (yes, I know the game series has a comic book based on it, but that's not directly in this book's pedigree, so it doesn't count).

The book follows the movie, wherein Lara Croft seeks vengeance on the murderers of a couple of childhood friends and to prevent a scientist who's into selling bio-weapons from acquiring Pandora's Box and all that it holds. It's a pretty quick bit of reading and really did make me want to watch the film, its predecessor, and a raft of other titles from King Solomon's Mines/Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, Romancing the Stone/Jewel of the Nile, Firewalker, and the host of other Indiana Jones knockoffs.

Unfortunately, though, the book does do some in-filling of character development, and it might overdevelop a character and make him to sympathetic for his ultimate fate. Much of that doesn't serve the actual story well as it makes the end a bit shocking.

But a nice bit of filler between the heady novels in my queue.

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