RELIC (Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child) - January 8/24

 I started this one months ago but had to return it. This is just absurdly overlong. It's got way too many characters and there are paragraphs and paragraphs of description after description. I was barely able to keep track of all the characters, and the authors even botch the monster-focused stuff. (So much happens offscreen! It's ridiculous.) ** out of ****