The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer

Taschenbuch
4.03

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Beschreibung

In the archaeology community, Christopher “Kit” Sawyer’s family is a legacy. And while he may be a historian, not a treasure hunter, he thinks he does a pretty good job of living up to the Sawyer name. He's a book-smart research fanatic and does his best work at his tidy desk. No fedora and whip for him, if you please—a nice cup of coffee and a comfy chair will do. But decoding an ancient relic soon gives him more adventure than he bargained for.

Unwittingly, he unleashes a force he doesn't know how to control. And now he has to reunite the relic with a powerful Aztec God. The trouble with that? Kit doesn’t where to find the Tlaloc’s temple. No one does, in fact. Finding it could be a discovery for the ages. It could also lead to his untimely death. So...yay? But it’s not like he has a choice. So off to the Mexican jungle he goes.

At least he isn’t going alone.

Ethan Stone, former stepbrother and overall pain in the rump, horns in on the expedition. An experienced archaeologist, he's only coming along at their grandfather's request—which annoys Kit to no end. But he knows Ethan is just the right person to get them through the jungle safely. It’s just too bad someone is trying to beat them to the temple. And he’s willing to do anything to get there first.

Ethan thinks Kit is in over his head. Kit is secretly afraid he just may be right. In manners of archaeology...and manners of the heart….
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3

I wish I could rate this higher because the writing style/humor was great, and I loved the couple, but I didn't care about the story at all 😅 There were too many times I was bored, even if I liked the characters and their joking around. I mean 3☆ (or kinda like 3,25☆) is still not bad and I would read other stuff from this author. So it's about Kit (Christopher) Sawyer, who is part of a famous family of adventurers who made all kinds of groundbreaking discoveries. He is also interested in Archology, but as a scientist and not in the field. Therefore, he is often disregarded as the boring one. But now the tables have turned. Kit Sawyer has to go on his first (and last) adventure in the Mexican jungle to return a (apparently) cursed artifact that won't leave him be. With him on this tour, his ex-step-brother Ethan, who he has complicated feelings for. I liked how the main character was written with his insecurities in the family and understandable animosity with Ethan, who had a special connection with his dad as a fellow adventurer, while he himself often felt left out, and also had to deal with having seizures/epilepsy (which also none of his exes could handle). They got over their "hatred" pretty fast on the trip, but it felt natural since they both knew it wasn't serious, and Ethan never did anything to really deserve it. I enjoyed their banter, and the romantic scenes were also nice. Now, about the actual story though. Nothing about it was surprising. I was more surprised that there wasn't more to it. Everything felt underwhelming. After that interesting opening with the cursed crown, it became almost irrelevant for most of the time. It took them over 100 pages to even get to the jungle, and then it was just endless walking and making camp (realistic, I guess, but boring). The discovery of the thing was also underwhelming, and the obvious "plottwist" was, well, obvious and uninteresting to me. The best part were the last, like 100 pages, where a bit more happened, but some things about how this curse was handled didn't make sense to me. Well, and then the epilogue was better since it was more about them being a couple. So yeah, nice relationship, but I wished it was in another book/story 😅

4

Das Buch war voller Klischees und es war vorhersehbar und absolut nicht innovativ (aka Indiana Jones und Lara Croft), aber es war TOLL und niedlich und „KÜSST EUCH ENDLICH!“. Für mich ein wundervolles Buch (das Hörbuch wird von Joel Leslie gesprochen und Joel Leslie ist EIN GOTT. Gebt euch also das Hörbuch <3) für zwischendurch und es tut total gut nicht halb an einem Herzinfarkt zu sterben, weil man so sehr Angst vor dem hat, was als nächstes kommt. Ich mochte das Buch echt gern, auch wenn ich halt gefühlt von Anfang an wusste, wie es abläuft. Es war toll <3 Einfach zum Wohlfühlen, auch wenn es dramatisch ist.

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