Reviews

Blood Codex by David Wood, Alan Baxter

mellhay's review

3.0

I enjoy how all they find and what's looking for them come together to complete each other. The information from two sides is like two pieces of a puzzle that fit together, filling in missing gaps and telling a whole story. Very cool.

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trevert's review

2.0

Normally I dig action/adventure/mystery novels like this, but this really came off as a paint-by-numbers copy of Da Vinci Code. In its favor, it's better written than the Dan Brown book (Holy crap, I find his writing excruciating...) but ultimately my overall review is - Flat characters do stuff until a conclusion is reached. I really didn't end up caring about anyone and there were a good number of unintentional laughs along the way as the former-SEAL super badass action guy now-turned-history-teacher conveniently manifested knowledge of every sort that the plot needed. And if he didn't, his tall, leggy, flirty Asian historian sidekick with martial arts expertise did.

"Looks like we need to translate this ancient Norse runic code."

"I know that from memory, I'm a HISTORY TEACHER!"

It was not a *bad* book, per se... I mean, I finished it and it held my interest and had some fun moments. But it was pretty forgettable and a lot more like a B-movie copy of a popular A-movie than good in its own right.

nikihannah's review

3.0

A bit far fetched ... I think there were many moments of ‘as if that would ever happen!’... but fun to read.

teamredmon's review

4.0

A ridiculously fun mystery/horror/thriller along the lines of the National Treasure films or the Uncharted video games. I read this in one day and then immediately bought the entire series on Amazon.