After reading “Relic” and comparing it with “Reliquary”, saying that this book was a letdown is the least I could say. Too many characters that didn’t add anything to the plot, I repeat, too many characters that didn’t add anything to the plot, made “Reliquary” longer that it should have been and believe it or not, boring; which is a word I though didn’t go together with the duo Preston/Child. But as long as Lieutenant D'Agosta, FBI agent Pendergast and with Dr. Margo Green were in search of the pseudo-Mbwuns, this book was fun to read. Though without the exotic mystery of what was making the killings. At the middle of the book I wished that a few of the support characters would just die. First on my list were Bill Smithback, the reporter, and the mother of the first victim they found. By the way, the whole riot episode Wealthy-people vs. Moles was just ridiculous.
