Title: Intelligence and heart in a coming of age drama -
Product review: No, not really a thriller or in the mystery genre, but I really got a kick out of this book. The subject was obscure but that does not make it inaccessible; in fact the authors make a generous point of unveiling the Hypnerotomachia to the uninitiated. For anyone who went from being the brightest star at their high school to being one of an ocean of bright stars at an Ivy League college, the characters and their relationships will ring very true. The only females in the book are hollow and petty (and superfluous), but as the book is written as a first-person narration by a male college student, I think that's entirely appropriate! The main girl in his life actually calls him on that at one point and rings 100% true. This is NOT the adrenaline-rush of a Dan Brown freefall, but a thoughtful and sometimes suspenseful account of a post-adolescent reassessment of life's priorities. Wordy, not for the impatient, but nicely-read and sweetly engaging.
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