Title: Promotion In Place of Quality
Product review: Heavily promoted and compared to Dan Brown, the promotion and the comparison do a disservice to potential readers. A movie critic recently offered this observation on "promotion": It's Hollywoodspeak for convincing moviegoers that something isn't dog poo when everybody knows it is..." The same applies to this book - The Rule of Four is not suspenseful, not engaging, not interesting - unless your tastes run to enjoying 170 pages of description of what it is to be a senior at Princeton. Only perseverance allowed me to finish reading this drivel. Dan Brown can rest easily - masters of the suspense, these authors are not. The book is slow paced, ponderous, in fact, through the first half, thoroughly predictable in the second half. I wouldn't recommend it except as an effective sedative for sleepless nights.
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