Cost: $1.25US
Page Count: 390
I shall admit, while I like Steve Berry's books to a certain degree, I only bought the Amber Room because it was autographed by the author. Not bad...a signed copy for a buck and a quarter. I'm glad it was signed because that is really the only redeeming quality about this book.
The Amber Room is about a Russian room in one of the palaces in the old Soviet Republic that was, shockingly, covered in amber panels. Amber...you know, the sap-like shit that we often find old assed mosquitos frozen into. Anywho, the Amber Room was a priceless relic that was taken apart and spirited away in the night during the Nazi advancement on Russia. Apparently, the Russians weren't too keen on the Nazi's getting their hands on their historical relics. So, the room was dismantled and shipped away...only to be lost forever.
That's where Rachel Cutler and Paul, her ex, get involved. So, Rachel stumbles across some clues about the possible whereabouts of the Amber Room. Why is it that the protagonist always "stumbles" across something only to get sucked into a furious race to find the relic? It happens in every fucking book and it's kinda starting to piss me off. But, I digress. There are sadistic killers also on the trail of the Amber Room and, of course, there is going to be a big old showdown with our two heroes. Yawn.
The Amber Room is about as cliche a novel as you can get. A lost relic, heroes, killers, a race to the end, blah blah fucking blah. Steve Berry has written a few good ones that I will be reviewing in coming days. He's actually a pretty good writer. I will chalk this up to being one of his earliest attempts at novel writing and I will cut the dude some slack. Yep...just checked the inside cover and this is his first novel. Slack cut, Mr. Berry.
The Amber Room is poo. Lame story, lame premise, lame characters. Steve Berry was cutting his teeth on this one. Good for him, bad for the reader.
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