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About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of passionate medievalist Margaret Napier, Edward is determined to solve the mystery of the codex-to understand its significance to his wealthy clients, and to decipher the seeming parallels between the legend of the codex and an obsessive role-playing computer game that has absorbed him in the dark hours of the night.
The chilling resolution brings together the medieval and the modern aspects of the plot in a twist worthy of earning comparisons to novels by William Gibson and Dan Brown, not to mention those by A. S. Byatt and Umberto Eco. Lev Grossman's Codex is a thriller of the highest order.
The chilling resolution brings together the medieval and the modern aspects of the plot in a twist worthy of earning comparisons to novels by William Gibson and Dan Brown, not to mention those by A. S. Byatt and Umberto Eco. Lev Grossman's Codex is a thriller of the highest order.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This left me with the feeling that I should have enjoyed it more than I did. For me, the author was not able to write a main character to whom I could relate. The needed intensity just isn't there and the ending is so badly botched, you will feel as if your brain was sacrificed to a kindergardner.
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Patrick and Chris C. (Much better than the DaVinci Code - doesn't pretend to be nonfiction, either! ;-)
Very fast paced. I really enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. Great finish.
CM C. (Couldn't get past the first couple of pages. The book is filled with too many words in a sentence, almost edging on run-ons.
Not bad, but the author took some shortcuts to keep the story moving. Worth reading, though.
A good literary mystery with multiple layers of plot. Highly recommended for fans of Dan Brown.
This book fell short of my expectations. The plot twist at the end was too little, too late.
Pretty interesting book. Kept me going to see what would happen.
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