An excellent formulaic adventure story with all the thrills you would expect. Just not the book for me at the moment.

It's a little too simplistic. I need a little more character building (I didn't care when the characters died for crying out loud), scene setting (I was visiting the big museums in London, including the natural history museum, while reading this - I should have felt creeped out) and some standard horror literary techniques such as foreshadowing (ok I read too much Stephen King).

Anyway, I blame all the literary fiction I have read over the last couple of years for spoiling me. As formulaic blockbuster tales go it does its job well.