This will be one of the few books I have to abandon. it starts out quite interesting, with a mystery that spans millennia. But then too many inconstencies are stacking up. Why is no one taking any pictures of the artifact, for instance? Nobody thought to ask a language expert when seeing the markings and just accepted the word of one scientist from a different field saying it’s just scribble? And seriously, you couldn’t cram the tablet into your waistband instead of leaving it behind?
But mostly, I was annoyed by the constant snark. It’s fun, if it’s done right, but here it’s just so over the top. And it’s useless dialogue, just filler, because ultimately, there really isn’t all that much to the story apart from the initial mystery.