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A review by kur9
The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman
2.0
Maybe I wasn't in the mood for this book, I had high hopes for this, expecting to be blown away with the way the premises sounded. But honestly I felt disappointed.
It follows our main character Nora, who discovers her best friend -Chris murder in cold blood and her boyfriend gone missing. He was also blamed for the death of her friend. In which she does not believe and would do anything to proof his innocent. Now our main character is a genius, she is very good at translating Latin. So when she’s given a centuries old manuscripts, it open her eyes to whole new world and discovery. Full of dark secrets and mystery, that linked to the murder of her best friend.
Like I said the premises sound interesting, however, we only got into the story, i.e. finding the death of Chris around 100 pages in to the book. Which felt really long for me. Also the uses of the Latin translation and the codes, really confused me at times, only later on when the text is been rephrased that I kind of understood. The story felt really flat and majority of the time the mystery or the way the plot was going was predictable. I don’t think I felt really surprised if a certain plot line has been revealed. Which is saying something, because I don’t read many mystery book, and if I do I tend to predict wrong.
The characters felt really blunt and unrealistic. They did not exactly annoy me. But at the same time I did not feel any connection to any of them. One major problem I had was the fact that many scholars and professional were desperate to try and find the ‘Luman Dei’ that they were looking for in the hundred years old Manuscripts but failed. However, was easily discovered by a high school girl in just short amount of time!
The pace of this book majority of the time was quite slow, the writing style is ok. But overall I did not like this book, which is a shame…
It follows our main character Nora, who discovers her best friend -Chris murder in cold blood and her boyfriend gone missing. He was also blamed for the death of her friend. In which she does not believe and would do anything to proof his innocent. Now our main character is a genius, she is very good at translating Latin. So when she’s given a centuries old manuscripts, it open her eyes to whole new world and discovery. Full of dark secrets and mystery, that linked to the murder of her best friend.
Like I said the premises sound interesting, however, we only got into the story, i.e. finding the death of Chris around 100 pages in to the book. Which felt really long for me. Also the uses of the Latin translation and the codes, really confused me at times, only later on when the text is been rephrased that I kind of understood. The story felt really flat and majority of the time the mystery or the way the plot was going was predictable. I don’t think I felt really surprised if a certain plot line has been revealed. Which is saying something, because I don’t read many mystery book, and if I do I tend to predict wrong.
The characters felt really blunt and unrealistic. They did not exactly annoy me. But at the same time I did not feel any connection to any of them. One major problem I had was the fact that many scholars and professional were desperate to try and find the ‘Luman Dei’ that they were looking for in the hundred years old Manuscripts but failed. However, was easily discovered by a high school girl in just short amount of time!
The pace of this book majority of the time was quite slow, the writing style is ok. But overall I did not like this book, which is a shame…