Tomb Raider: Ten Thous Imm

Oct 2014 · Penguin

About this ebook

The new Tomb Raider novel will broaden the world and enriches the storyline re-introduced in the highly successful Tomb Raider video game. The first novel in a trilogy will continue the exploration of Lara Croft's origins as the "Tomb Raider," featuring an entirely new, fast-paced adventure.

Ratings and reviews

I've been in love with Tomb Raider and Lara since the first game came out in 1996. Even with that much affection for this series, I had to force myself to finish this book. The book seems to drag and move at a sluggish pace until the last 60 pages or so. Not the worst piece of licensed fiction I've read, but hardly worthy of the last two installments of the game that inspired this work.

Love Abnett, but I am disappointed. His Eisenhorn novels were fantastic and rich in story, lore, and character development. Not so much here. There were plenty of opportunities to show how the horrors of Yamatai forever changed Lara, basically into a space marine herself. But here in so many ways she is uncharacteristically timid, using wiles and deceit to weasel her way out situations rather than face them head on. Not the Croft I know.

I know that spelling and gamer errors happen but when the author replaces every "z"in the book with an "s" it gets really annoying. The book was very repetitive and quite lacking in description. I found it very difficult to imagine most of the settings throughout the story. Tomb raider is awesome though the book could've had a better author.