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    The Medusa Amulet
    The Medusa Amulet
    The Medusa Amulet
    Audiobook15 hours

    The Medusa Amulet

    Written by Robert Masello

    Narrated by David Colacci

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    About this audiobook

    Benvenuto Cellini, master artisan of Renaissance Italy, once crafted a beautiful amulet prized for its unimaginable power-and untold menace. Now the quest to recover this legendary artifact depends upon one man: David Franco, a brilliant but skeptical young scholar at Chicago's world-renowned Newberry Library. What begins as a simple investigation spirals into a tale of dangerous intrigue, as Franco races from the châteaux of France to the palazzos of Rome in a desperate search for the ultimate treasure and an answer to a riddle that has puzzled mankind since the beginning of time. Aided by a beautiful young Florentine harboring dark secrets, pursued by deadly assassins, and battling demons of his own, Franco must ultimately confront an evil greater than anything conjured in his worst nightmares.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781515973072
    The Medusa Amulet
    Author

    Robert Masello

    Robert Masello is an award-winning journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of many novels and nonfiction books. His historical thrillers with a supernatural bent have been published in seventeen languages and include The Night Crossing, The Jekyll Revelation, The Romanov Cross, The Medusa Amulet, Blood and Ice, and the Amazon Charts bestseller The Einstein Prophecy. His articles and essays have appeared in such prominent publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, New York magazine, People, Newsday, Parade, Glamour, Town & Country, Travel + Leisure, and the Wilson Quarterly. An honors graduate of Princeton University, Masello has also taught and lectured nationwide, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to Claremont McKenna College, where he served as visiting lecturer in literature for six years. A long-standing member of the Writers Guild of America, he now lives in Santa Monica, California. You may visit him at www.robertmasello.com.

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    • 4/5
      This book was an excellent mixture of history, suspense and the supernatural with a small bit of romance thrown in. The characters were all well-drawn and fascinating. The exciting plot made the book hard to put down. I will be looking forward to reading more books by Masello and would recommend this book to those who love mystery/suspense with history and adventure.
    • 4/5
      I found it to be interesting reading,...history, adventure, mysticism...even a little romance... but sometimes it was a real challenge as it went on and on. If it hadn't been that I was reading it as a group read I honestly may have skipped parts of it. It will be essential that the reader be able to suspend their disbelief as well as historical reality.
    • 4/5
      I actually enjoyed this book and it brought me back to a genre that I used to read voraciously, but haven't done so for a while. It did remind me of the Da Vinci Code in that it combined history, mystery, a connection to the present day, and action. But, this book did have its own personality and allure for me. In this book, David Franco, a renaissance scholar at the Newberry Library in Chicago was approached by a wealthy patron to find and return the Medusa Amulet and another artifact. Franco discovers that not only would his discovery of this artifact do wonderful things for his career, but its supposed powers could possibly help his sister who is dying from cancer. Along his journey, Franco travels to Florence and then on to Paris. Along the way, he (of course) meets a beautiful, smart woman who is able to help him with the necessary research to find the Amulet, which she knows all about and has her own agenda as well. They, of course, find attraction with one another as well. Not only is their journey full of action and adventure, but there is a lot of historical might to create a well rounded story. I enjoyed the flashbacks and the historical story of Cellini (the creator of the Amulet) and his relationship with Caterina. To me, that was a much more interesting relationship than the one between Franco and Olivia. I wish there had been more depth for the Franco/Olivia relationship, but I guess there can only be so much depth when they two just met. The ending (I won't spoil it for you) was just a bit too tidy and I had a couple of questions regarding the who and why, but over all the story was a good read. There was a lot of historical information as well as action and adventure and a little romance thrown in as well.
    • 2/5
      Well written and well-paced, but the plot depends on a mcguffin that only the avid fan of the supernatural will buy into. The good end happily and the bad end badly as Lady Bracknell nearly said!
    • 2/5
      While a fairly well written book, the plot and subject line were simply so outlandish that it became silly, a farce, a parodyI would not recommend this to anyone.