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Title: Quite literally one of the worst books I've ever read.
Review: The thought that kept going through my head as I read was: how did this get published? I'm sure worse first novels have been written. But was the editor out of red pencils when he/she read this manuscript? It's far too long and poorly told.There's a dictum in storytelling: show, don't tell. Repeatedly the author tells us that some character's "blood ran cold" upon reading some passage in a book, while I, the reader, found the new revelation to be perfectly boring.As for the book's surprises... they were so clearly telegraphed beforehand, so utterly obvious, that the only people who could not see them coming from a mile away was the characters themselves.I truly believe that were it not for the wild success of The Da Vinci Code, this book would never have been published.A warning to any intelligent reader: don't bother.
