I think I am a little like the magpie on the front of this book because I was attracted by the pretty gold design on the front cover when I was in the library choosing my books. The sticker on the front announcing that this was an 'Instant number one best seller' also helped with my choice and I'm glad to say that the story inside did not disappoint. I had been looking for something a bit different, but as it turned out, this book is set in the same century as the book Winchelsea that I read last week, although there is a very different tone to the writing. Winchelsea was about smugglers and pirates and Pandora has a focus on antiquities and the myth of Pandora's Box. I enjoyed the style of writing as it was easy to read and the storyline was told along a fairly straight time-line with references to the past only taking the form of memories. Sometimes that is much easier to get along with as it can be quite frustrating if you come to the end of an ex...