Title: A Beautifully Wrapped Stinker
Product review: As others have pointed out here, some of the writing in this book is brilliant. Unfortunately, none of it applies to the "plot," and I use the term loosely. The two villains seem interchangeable to me, so much so that I got them confused. The laborious business about life at Princeton merely got in the way of the story. The murders encountered by the protagonists are glossed over, as if such events are everyday experiences, and the police investigations were explained away with a sentence or two.It was also hard to keep track of the story/backstory, with the narrative jumping around from flashbacks to the present.A lot of people are making money on the success of The Da Vinci Code. These two fledgling authors are doing the same. If they have a multi-book contract, I'll be interested to see if they develop more writing muscle in the future.
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