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jodar's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
4.5/5 stars in the superficial-but-fun scale.
A fast-moving thriller which felt like a cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond. It’s well written and all the characters are well drawn and relatable. The MC/narrator is reliable, but much else is not what it seems.
Quibbles: a misuse of ‘enormity’ in Chapter 88 (‘enormousness’ not ‘exceedingly horrible’ is clearly meant), and given the scientific context, the misuse of ‘quantum leap’ in Chapter 102 with the sense of a huge leap (rather than the smallest possible leap) is rather odd.
A fast-moving thriller which felt like a cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond. It’s well written and all the characters are well drawn and relatable. The MC/narrator is reliable, but much else is not what it seems.
Quibbles: a misuse of ‘enormity’ in Chapter 88 (‘enormousness’ not ‘exceedingly horrible’ is clearly meant), and given the scientific context, the misuse of ‘quantum leap’ in Chapter 102 with the sense of a huge leap (rather than the smallest possible leap) is rather odd.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infertility, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, Confinement, Death, and Suicide
tiemzahra's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
My second Dan Brown, and already I found a template of his story.
This book was intriguing, too intense for my mild self. But towards in the middle, I simply couldn’t stop reading. Twists here and there,couldn’t appreciate what they did for the movie, that Sienna was the bad guy after all, because in the book, what Sienna believed is more complicated. I love that for a fact, this book features ambiguity in morality. What’s right and wrong, you could never say which one’s which.
I might wait for a while before starting another Dan Brown. His books were well-crafted, but sometimes books of the same author with similar template put me off (eg. Murakami). But you could appreciate the intricacies of his story, like I was reading nonfiction in a fiction, if that makes sense. This book features the poet Dante and I learned so much of his life history.
This book was intriguing, too intense for my mild self. But towards in the middle, I simply couldn’t stop reading. Twists here and there,
I might wait for a while before starting another Dan Brown. His books were well-crafted, but sometimes books of the same author with similar template put me off (eg. Murakami). But you could appreciate the intricacies of his story, like I was reading nonfiction in a fiction, if that makes sense. This book features the poet Dante and I learned so much of his life history.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Body horror, Gun violence, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide
Minor: Mental illness
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