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Review title: A word of caution
Product review: I received this book as a gift and so felt obliged to read it. I'm sorry that I did. The plot is both implausible and predictable (that's quite an acheivement, I guess.) The dialogue is unconvincing, and the characters are collections of cliches. Much of the violence is gratuitous, and the pseudo-psychology surrounding the concept of revenge is nonsense. The "solution" to the "riddle" is obvious from the moment it's mentioned, but it takes the characters (one with a doctorate from Oxford) most of the book to figure it out. Finally, the depiction of women (violence against the "good", demonization of the "evil") belongs to an era that deserves to be long gone. If you liked The da Vinci Code, save your money.
