Steven C. (SteveTheDM) - , reviewed on 11/19/2010 + 204 more book reviews

I haven't felt quite so insulted by a book in a long long time. Seriously: every chapter ends with a cliffhanger?

I shut this book in disgust so many times at the way Brown jerks the reader around. The unfortunate part of all that is that the *story* was actually pretty good, and I didn't want to just abandon it. I honestly liked the characters, I liked the interplay of current-time events and flashbacks, and I thought the overall arc of the story was really quite good.

But that Brown and his manipulation of his readers. It drove me crazy, drove my rating for the book down, and will keep me from reading any other of his books.

The bit of the book that got the Christian Right all upset a few years ago? Give me a break. That was a lot of nothing. There are a lot more problems with the book than the particulars that made that kerfuffle happen...

3.5 stars out of 5.

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