Title: Deceptively bad
Product review: Like many others, I was enticed by the promise of good writing compared to the Da Vinci Code. Like many others I was disappointed. As ham-fisted and obvious as Mr Brown's books are, at least they fulfill the fundamental requirement of the genre. They are page turners. They have a plot that screams along.Alas, The Rule Of Four is bogged down by its attempt to be deep and meaningful. The plot seems incidental. The characters are unpleasant, shallow and too exposed. Nowhere is the mystery made to seem important. Who cares about page upon page of Princeton lore and embarassingly written romance? Not I.The Rule of Four is one of the few books that I threw in the trash rather than pass on. I found the whole experience annoying, and I would rather not inflict it on my friends.
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