Title: Don't believe the hype
Product review: ... I found this book contrived, the suspense artificially manufactured, with fake cliffhangers every couple of pages. I found the inevitable revelation was something I figured out right around page 50, so no big surprise, and I had to slog through a lot of bad writing and reams of factoids (some of them wrong, by the way). It's like the author thinks he'll snow us with Too Much Information. Plus a lot of the information was irrelevant mind game stuff, like the Fibonacci numbers and all that. Why he had to go pick on Opus Dei as a villain I don't know -- I hold no brief for them, but they're just not cartoon bad guys like he makes them out to be. And it makes no sense that the victim whose death starts out the book would put his granddaughter on this endless scavenger hunt -- that was what really felt contrived. How anyone can compare this potboiler to "Name of the Rose" is beyond me.
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