Title: Could have been good...
Review: After finally finishing this messy, plodding, self-conscious book, I read reviews by others, including the biggies...Washington Post, etc. It seems that everyone else loved this book that, for me, fell so far short of air and shadows that I was tempted to skip the ending and move on to something better. The topic is compelling. I'm a fan of the literary thriller in general and this could have been really good; that is, if you took out all the dull character studies where, I swear, I could hear Michael Gruber thinking of ways to sound intellectual and profound. It was Dan Brown with a broader vocabulary and a bigger ego. Yuck. A waste of a good idea.
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