{"id":154419,"date":"2021-10-25T09:36:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T22:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=154419"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:13:40","slug":"review-the-one-impossible-labyrinth-by-matthew-reilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2021\/10\/25\/review-the-one-impossible-labyrinth-by-matthew-reilly\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: The One Impossible Labyrinth by Matthew Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Matthew<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Reilly\u2019s writing is completely and utterly ridiculous, in the best possible way. He breaks all the rules of \u201cgood literature\u201d in creations that are escapist, violent and fanciful. The result is bloody excellent and you should go read all his books right now.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"Matthew<\/a>

Matthew Reilly (Photo by Shawn Barber).<\/p><\/div>\n

Reilly\u2019s latest is the hotly anticipated The One Impossible Labyrinth<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, grand finale to his Jack West Jr. series. These particular stories could be described as Indiana Jones<\/em> meets Die Hard<\/em> meets The Da Vinci Code<\/em> meets Mortal Kombat<\/em>. The books feature an unkillable Aussie commando who sports a Skywalker-esque robotic arm who, together with his family and an international team of assassins, geniuses and fighter pilots, goes blazing across the globe unlocking ancient secrets and protecting the world from cosmic annihilation. <\/p>\n\n\n

The One Impossible Labyrinth<\/em> is capital F Fun. It opens with Jack and his crew racing down a heavily booby-trapped tunnel when an attacker falls from the ceiling and starts trying to bite his face off<\/em>. This is the least of the hero\u2019s problems \u2014 he\u2019s running dead last in a race into the unknown, the victor of which will rule humanity or DESTROY THE UNIVERSE. Pretty much all Jack has to aid him in the impossible is the coded tattoos on the scalp of a mummified pharaoh and a clip loaded with bullets forged from the metal of Excalibur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anything more I could say about this book would be a spoiler, but you can expect fire to rain from the sky, oceans to part, military hardware to become airborne in a manner you wouldn\u2019t expect, four letter words to be both uttered and shouted, and deaths to be both plentiful and graphically discussed. Jack West Jr is not suitable for children, nor is it suitable for adults who take things too seriously. These novels are engineered for pure, unadulterated entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Q&A hosted on our Facebook page<\/a><\/strong> to promote the book, Reilly himself, said it best when he told fans that he\u2019d baked together every crazy thing he loves into the Jack West Jr series, and that The One Impossible Labyrinth<\/em> is like the icing to go on that cake \u2014 this guy has saved his very best until last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014The One Impossible Labyrinth<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Matthew Reilly (Pan Macmillan Australia) is out now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Booktoberfest<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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