Title: Great potential, little to show for it.
Product review: The Rule of Four shows signs of life here and there, but is ultimately brought down by amateurish writing that no competent editor should have allowed to meet the presses. Besides wooden, trite dialogue, there are parts of this book that just don't add up. So much so, that my first inclination was to cut the authors some slack and wonder if they had written their book in "code" like the infamous author of their story. Not wanting to spend time decoding a weak novel, I will offer that this is just bad writing. The major leaps made by the two Princeton students in solving the riddles, the flat, cartoony characters and the tacked on, completely expected ending all add up to a "why am I reading this" feeling. While the DaVinci Code (the book Rule of Four is often compared to) is no great work of literature, Dan Brown appears to be a far more competent writer than these two young men. To those contemplating this book...stay away.
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