Title: Didn't grab me in the first 100 pages ...
Product review: I wanted to like this book. Really. It appeared to be a thriller much in the vein of _The Da Vinci Code_. However, the story really didn't do much to keep my interest. By page 70 or so, I found my thoughts drifting away from the book.As other reviewers here have mentioned, the authors paint a very tactile and detailed picture of Princeton University in the winter. Unfortunately, the narrator's shifts into unimportant backgrounds of secondary and tertiary characters are what I found to be the potholes in the road of this story.My rule of thumb is that if I don't really care about any of the characters or what the outcome of the story is by the first 100 pages (usually 1/3 or 1/4 of the way through the book), I close the book.
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