Bestiary

BESTIARY is essentially a series of plot threads that more or less converge, with only marginal success. A mysterious Iraqi millionaire named Mohammed Al-Kalli possesses an equally mysterious, ancient book called The Beasts of Eden, which is a catalog of fabulous, monstrous creatures, including gryp......more

My second read of this book. I always enjoy Masello’s books as light, beach read style adventures. There is just enough smart research to be tantalizing, yet not enough to weigh down the pacing. The characters are surprisingly well-rounded. Secondary and tertiary characters are given enough story to......more

It should have been interesting and parts of it were, but there was a lot that went nowhere. Who is Arius? (previous book i take it). What was with carter's wicked scary nightmares that really did nothing? And the ending meant nothing more could really come of anything other than making a hunt. I don......more

Oh, Robert Masselo. I love you, but dang, your research wasn’t up to its usual standard, here- the treatment of the discussion around the ethical disposal of human remains in an archaeological/museological context wasn’t exactly fair and balanced. There’s a lot more to it then “irrational” Native Am......more

I really expected to enjoy this book, and for about the first three quarters of it I did. I have one word for the ending and that word is anticlimactic. I expected all the different story lines to come together in the end, but they never did. Each one just ended in its own way and they were all disa......more