Negative Positive
Title: good plot, dreadful writing
Review: Seeing the description of this book as being comparable to those by Katherine Neville (The Eight, A Calculated Risk, et. al.), I was very excited to read Angels & Demons. Boy, was I disappointed. The author doesn't seem to think much of the intelligence of his readers; the writing is studded with superfluous and exhausting italics, the foreshadowing is done, not so much with a heavy hand as with the heavy feet of a football team (yech - I apologize for the metaphor, but you get the idea) and his characters have uncharacteristic moments of stupidity (not figuring out something really simple) so he can ratchet up the tension a little bit. All of which is really too bad because the plot, in itself, could have been really exciting,If you enjoy a good conspiracy yarn - this ain't it.
Is the review positive or negative? 