The Obsidian Chamber

[The Obsidian Chamber. Agente Pendergast: 16]
Year: 
2016
Type: 
Public: 
Publisher: 
Grand Central Publishing
Year of publication: 
2016
Pages: 
417
Moral assessment: 
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality: 
Recommendable: 
Transmits values: 
Sexual content: 
Violent content: 
Vulgar or obscene language: 
Ideas that contradict Church teaching: 
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

Detective Aloysius Pendergast, whom everyone believes to be dead - even his brother Diogenes and his protégée, Constance - is in fact alive, and is looking for Constance who, devastated by Aloysius' death, seeks refuge in the chambers of her family mansion, from where she is kidnapped, despite Proctor's efforts to prevent it.

Thus begins this story, which develops while maintaining the excitement and suspense. It resorts to implausible situations: in this plot everything is possible, for example, a macabre elixir that prolongs life works or that the end justifies the means and is considered correct. Sometimes, without insisting, there are some sensual scenes. The novel is entertaining and lets fantasy imagine unusual places. Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston are American thriller writers; they have written several successful novels with their fictional character Aloysius Pendergast as the protagonist.

Author: Angeles Labrada, Spain
Update on: Feb 2021