This book reminded me heavily of something off of the SciFi channel, sort of like a movie of the week. Not in a bad way- if this book had been a SciFi movie it would've been one of the better ones- possibly even a pilot episode to a series. After I finished the book & read the short blip about the author, the comparison made a lot of sense. Andy McDermott used to be a movie critic, so it would be reasonable to think that he'd write with movies in mind. 
 Nina has had a zest for Atlantis all of her life. After all, it was her parents' fondest myth- something they spent their whole lives pursuing... and died trying to find it while Nina was still a young girl. Years later Nina is given the opportunity to follow in their footsteps & prove that her theories are more than wild speculation, thanks to Kari Frost & her charismatic father. Unfortunately for her, Nina's not the only person focused on Atlantis- just as she's dying to find the lost city, someone else is hoping for the same thing- minus her finding the city! 
 To read this book, you have to go into it with a certain mindset. This isn't a book you should take overly seriously. It's never going to be an assigned read for a college course, but it is something I'd recommend reading at the beach, over the holidays or just during some down time. The book is just pure fun. 
 True, the plot twists can be seen coming from a mile away, but most of the fun comes from knowing these things & anticipating them. I enjoyed the fast moving plotlines, although I do wish that some parts of the plot could've been fleshed out a little more, the Atlantis scenes in particular. I enjoyed the explosions & intense chases for the most part, but I would've liked to have learned a bit more about the archaeological parts of the book! (I'd gladly have swapped out a few pages of chase scenes in order to get a few more of Atlantis scenes!) 
 The only other thing I'd say derailed the book a bit is that I never really got a good sense of the romance brewing between Nina & her bodyguard Eddie. It's there, but between all of the chase scenes it just didn't get all that well fleshed out. I guess that in the end the one thing that held this book back was that the author spent far too long describing the overly long chase & explosion scenes to really give the other parts of the book the detail they deserved. While that would work well in a movie, in a book it just doesn't translate as well. 
 Like I said, this isn't going to be winning any literary awards any time soon, but there will always be a spot in my library for books such as this. It's not the greatest thing I've read, but it's still entertaining enough that I'll pick the next book in the series up.