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The Crystal Skull (2008)

de Manda Scott

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Fiction. Suspense. "One of the boldest recent adventures in historical fiction.". Moving from the past to the present, Scott's story recounts the quest for a crystal skull with magical healing powers. In the past, Cedric Owen has to find a place of safekeeping for the skull so that, hundreds of years in the future, Stella Cody can find it and keep it safe from the forces that wish to unleash doomsday. Susan Duerden narrates in a light, crisp English accent that comes to embody Stella's point of view and personality. When narrating Cedric's experiences, Duerden lowers her voice and adds a bit of a nasal tone, adroitly adjusting for the masculine timbre while not overcompensating for it. However, some of her accents sound forced or exaggerated. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine. HTML:In a spellbinding blend of history, myth, and science, bestselling novelist Manda Scott unleashes a thriller that sweeps from the secrets of the Mayans to the court of a sixteenth-century queen to a shattering end-times prophecy.

"
It's a lump of rock, Stella; nothing more. No stone is worth dying for."
Except it's not just a lump of rock. It's a blue crystal skull made by the Maya to save the world from ruin; a sapphire so perfect, so powerful that for centuries men have killed to own or destroy it.
Ancient prophecies say that if the thirteen skulls already in existence are not reunited, the world will end on December 21, 2012. Cedric Owen, the skull's last Keeper, died so that it might keep its secret for the next four centuries. Now Stella Cody has found it, and someone has already tried to kill her. Like Owen, she's being huntedâ??but by whom?
Desperate to unravel the mystery of the crystal skull, Stella must decode Cedric Owen's coded writings, sketches and ciphers no scholar has been able to unravel. What she discovers is astounding: a shocking secret prophecy...and the staggering puzzle of four terrifying creatures, thirteen precious stones, and what will happen if Cedric Owen's crystal skull falls into the wrong hands. But time is against Stella. She has only daysâ??hoursâ??left to uncover the only secret that may yet save the world.
12.21.12
The date is set. Time is running out.
The end of the world starts now.


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Cedric Owen, un licenciado en medicina de Cambridge, huye de las persecuciones religiosas en la Inglaterra del siglo XVI llevándose consigo una piedra de cristal azul tallada en forma de calavera humana que ha pasado de mano en mano, durante generaciones, en su familia. Tras una breve estancia en Francia, donde conoce por boca de Nostradamus su destino, embarca en Sevilla en un navío con rumbo a tierras mayas al mando de un imperturbable capitán español. En el Nuevo Mundo espera desentrañar el misterio de un extraño legado que debe proteger a toda costa. Y cuatrocientos años después....
Tras el descubrimiento de un objeto legendario en una gruta, Stella, una joven doctora de Cambridge, debe reunir todas las pistas ocultas en el mismo y en indescifrables documentos para impedir el cumplimento de una antigua profecía: el fin del mundo, o el cambio a una nueva era, que los mayas fecharon con precisión implacable el 21 de diciembre de 2012.
  Natt90 | Dec 14, 2022 |
This book was enjoyable but it had some kinks that needed to be worked out, but I enjoyed it to the end. ( )
  TimidLilWolf | Mar 15, 2021 |
It took me a really long time to get into this book. I very nearly put it down and not finish it. In the end it grabbed my attention around 65%. ( )
  Emmie217 | Jun 27, 2018 |
A good story, told well. Not quite a-thrill-a-minute, but plenty to keep me turning pages - in fact I read most of it in one day. The narrative switches back and forth between the late 1500's and 'present day,' neatly threading the two halves of the story together. A satisfyingly exciting climax without being too crazy. ( )
  adam.currey | Apr 15, 2018 |
Pearl Ruled...too little to keep me turning pages after p50, and too much else I want to read. ( )
  richardderus | May 16, 2013 |
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Fiction. Suspense. "One of the boldest recent adventures in historical fiction.". Moving from the past to the present, Scott's story recounts the quest for a crystal skull with magical healing powers. In the past, Cedric Owen has to find a place of safekeeping for the skull so that, hundreds of years in the future, Stella Cody can find it and keep it safe from the forces that wish to unleash doomsday. Susan Duerden narrates in a light, crisp English accent that comes to embody Stella's point of view and personality. When narrating Cedric's experiences, Duerden lowers her voice and adds a bit of a nasal tone, adroitly adjusting for the masculine timbre while not overcompensating for it. However, some of her accents sound forced or exaggerated. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine. HTML:In a spellbinding blend of history, myth, and science, bestselling novelist Manda Scott unleashes a thriller that sweeps from the secrets of the Mayans to the court of a sixteenth-century queen to a shattering end-times prophecy.

"
It's a lump of rock, Stella; nothing more. No stone is worth dying for."
Except it's not just a lump of rock. It's a blue crystal skull made by the Maya to save the world from ruin; a sapphire so perfect, so powerful that for centuries men have killed to own or destroy it.
Ancient prophecies say that if the thirteen skulls already in existence are not reunited, the world will end on December 21, 2012. Cedric Owen, the skull's last Keeper, died so that it might keep its secret for the next four centuries. Now Stella Cody has found it, and someone has already tried to kill her. Like Owen, she's being huntedâ??but by whom?
Desperate to unravel the mystery of the crystal skull, Stella must decode Cedric Owen's coded writings, sketches and ciphers no scholar has been able to unravel. What she discovers is astounding: a shocking secret prophecy...and the staggering puzzle of four terrifying creatures, thirteen precious stones, and what will happen if Cedric Owen's crystal skull falls into the wrong hands. But time is against Stella. She has only daysâ??hoursâ??left to uncover the only secret that may yet save the world.
12.21.12
The date is set. Time is running out.
The end of the world starts now.


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