title: The Chamber of Ten
author:  Christopher Golden 
description: Golden and Lebbon pair up once again for the clumsy third "Hidden Cities" installment (after 2009's The Map of Moments), this time with the sinking city of Venice as the setting. Geena Hodge, a hotshot archaeologist, has traveled abroad with her boyfriend, semi-telepath Nico, and a BBC documentary film crew to find and document the city's ancient architecture before it disappears forever. The discovery of a hidden door inside the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana quickly leads to the uncovering of the Chamber of Ten, a possible meeting place for the Council of Ten, an organization that secretly gained control of Venice in the mid-15th century. What follows is a somewhat rambling account of Hodge's foray into the covert-and magical-history of one of Italy's most renowned cities. Chock-full of tortured prose ("his voice was level, though his eyes were full of questions and mystery") and flat characters, this book will appeal to few other than hardcore fans of the series. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  _Golden Son_ is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents
  either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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  Copyright © 2015 by Pierce Brown
  
  
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Brown, Pierce  
  Golden son / Pierce Brown.  
  p. cm.—(The Red Rising trilogy; bk. 2)  
  ISBN 978-0-345-53981-6 (hardback)