Customer Reviews
Gripping page turner - By: Glaucon, 10 Feb 2008 
This was recommended to me by a friend & is not the sort of book I would normallly pick for myself. However I whizzed through it & must say enjoyed it very much. There are some fascinating historical facts & the plot takes some nice twists & turns. The lead character FBI agent is a little too polished & refined to be entirely believable, & some of the other characterisations are rather one dimensional, however the tale is certainly gripping. It is not particularly scary if that is what you are looking for, but it is certainly a book that is difficult to put down.
Brilliant thriller!! - By: G. Peters, 17 Dec 2007 
Cabinet of Curiosities was the first Preston/Child book i read which involved agent Pendergast & since this he has become one of my favourite fictional charecter's. Nora Kelly & Will Smithback Jnr also return in a cracking thriller which will keep you guessing to the end.
Some of the scenes/desriptions will genuinely keep you on edge & im not embarrassed to say sent chills down my spine.
Murder, mystery & suspense, Cabinet of Curiosities has it alll! Full marks.
memorable - By: P. SACRE, 24 Jul 2007 I think you post a review here if you either adore or hate something. If you don't care, why bother. Here is a book among the former: I reallly liked it a lot - good plot & characters, but mainly a very original theme & dark places that are so vividly rendered that they reallly frightened me while reading (which is seldom happening). Contrary to Brimstone (they worst, I hated it), this book by Preston/Child may be their best, at least it is my favourite (ok, Still Life with Crows is perfect too).
Good but not great - By: DevJohn01, 16 Oct 2005 
'THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES' is one book in a series from the writing team of Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child that seems to have a pretty big cult following. The premise for this book in particular interested me, when an underground charnel is found during construction of a new high-rise, FBI agent Pendegrast's interests are aroused & when new victims begin turning up seemingly linked to the 19th century murders Pendegrast begins the hunt for a potential copycat serial killer & must find the link between the two killers. Sounds interesting enough right? Well it was, until the end, which reallly disappointed me. I was completely engrossed in the first two thirds of this book; however, I found some aspects of the final chapters of the book to be a little too implausible & other aspects to be a little too easy. This could easily have been a five star book, in my opinion, but the ending just did not do it for me. So while I thought that this book was good, it was not as good as I tought it could have been so it only gets three stars from this reviewer.
Excellent Book - By: , 05 Jun 2005 I found this book on the Quick Pick table at my local library & am very glad I did.
I found a very good read, & reminded me not just a little of Jeffrey Deaver. The historical aspect was extremely interesting & the character of Agent Pendergast was very well written.
On the down side, some people my find some things in the book a little far fetched - Pendergast does some things that would have any law enforcement officer on the carpet quicker than you could say 'badge'. Plus his apparent unlimited resources would have a lot of people wondering.
It's an excellent read for Deaver fans, & indeed crime thriller fans in general - just suspend your logic for a while & enjoy the story.
