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Review title: An Evocative Read
Product review: Enjoyable read. Much historical detail and good character development. Probably could have used editing down a tad, but it was one of those books that takes you to a different world.One gripe: Kostova's resturant sceene(s) with one protagonist about to tell the other the big secret -- I'm won't give it away -- was repeated far too many times.Read this about a year ago and recommended it highly to anyone who likes the spate of Templar Books, The DaVinci Code, The Book of Four, Anne Rice's offerings and such. Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose is probably the grandday of this kind of atmospheric book with codes, archives, reasearch, hidden/gnostic knowledge. That Kostaova sustained this for 700 pages is no mean feat.
