A review by yoav
Written in Fire by Marcus Sakey

2.0

This is the third book in the "brilliance" trilogy. If you made it through the second novel which was bad you have good news and bad news: the good news, this book is better then the second. The bad news: this is not a good book. Yes, the idea of the series is fantastic. Yes, it is thrilling at times and the action parts are written well. But it is written in fire or more exactly drowning in an endless mumbo jambo, every thought or a feeling that a catcher has, is describe in length, as a flashback to the past that is basically summering everything that was happening previously (is Natalie frightened, it can't be, she was a brave girl, but then she got married, had children her ex did this and that so no she isn't afraid for her self but that her kids won't have a mom - and this go on for three pages!). One of the characters is gifted in a way that every second for us feels to him as 11 seconds - Reading this book might be torture for him. Happy this saga ended (and don't get me started talking about the end). This series of three books could have been shortened in to two, not very long books but thrilling one. If you know how to skim or have a lot of patients, you might enjoy it after all.