Ésa's Reviews > The Lazarus Vault: a pacy, heart-thumping, race-against time thriller guaranteed to have you hooked…

Rather difficult to say whether I enjoyed the book or not. Whilst I was really hooked onto it, I found the book never really explained the justification for the drive towards the main subject of the book, until at the end, a sort of deviation that this a quest that maybe leads us to this important object of power.
Also, there wasn't so much narrative, apart from the two meetings between Ellie and Harry, to really explain why Ellie would suddenly risk her life to break into the vault. A little more description would have added to the smooth flow of the story, especially given the relatively intimate relationship between her and Blanchard. Blanchard also never really struck me as a villain, the first part of the book made it seem like they really were two lovers getting closer and closer, so why did Ellie suddenly turn around like that?
That really irked me.
And then the other storyline of Peter/Christien; how was his family protecting this object of power? Why were they killed, how did this Count they slewed in the opening chapters of the book, come to this object of power, when it was Malegant (Peter's eventual new captain) who killed Peter's family when he was 10 and that it was Peter's family who held the access to this?

Basically, whilst I admit to being hooked to this story, I think it was mainly because of my interest in Ellie and Blanchard's relationship and this mysterious object. I guess that is the point of reading, but I really felt the author could have done more effort in tidying the loose threads up.