So after months of reading this book chapter by chapter (or should I say part by part), I finally finished reading all of it -- while waiting for the rain to stop falling and waiting for the delivery guy to finally arrive with the plants that my mother ordered online -- again. Anyway, as I'm writing this down, I'm at the 4th floor of Maharlika Building in Baguio. And until now, it's still raining hard.
Anyway, I'll put that aside for now.
It took me a long time to actually finish reading the 3rd adventure of Olly and Josh in searching for the Talismans of the Moon. This time, they were in search for the Amulet of Quilla. If I'm going to be honest, I'm not that much knowledgeable when it comes to Inca mythology and legends. But I find it fascinating that there were authors who could incorporate such things on a children's story.
But if I'm going to be honest (again), it didn't capture my attention and fascination as I hoped it would. True, the tapestry's design and the starting tale of the legend was fascinating, but there were things left unexplained. Especially at the last part -- or near the last part. Josh said that the tunnel wasn't large enough for an adult to pass through. Why is that? Why did they deliberately build it as such? Who ordered it to be made like that? My questions may be silly to some, but this is how I view it.
The overall adventure was great, if you're going to ask me. And yet something feels like it's lacking of proper explanation. And the puma in the end... Why do I have a feeling that it was a spirit and not an actual one? But it's nice to know that the real location of the amulet inside the temple wasn't an obvious one. I'm still questioning the fact as to why does it have to be a puma, though.
I wonder what led Olly to believe strongly about the puma, though.
Okay, enough with the questions. I'm just glad I got to finish reading this after a long while. I can finally put this on my other books that I'm done reading. Even with the slight disappointment that I got after reading this story, I'd still like to read the other three books under this series. Of course, I still have to look for them. And I have this feeling that it's not going to be an easy task at all.
Till the next book comment!
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