tericarol21 's review for:

The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber

4.0

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The cover blurb promises a book more fascinating than the DaVinci Code, and the book delivers. It's a similar sort of idea (hidden/encoded messages that lead to a great find) but with such better writing and more intellectual stimulation that it's not even in the same category. This book is definitely a page turner, with plot twists and secrets and even a little character development (though that's the one aspect I would say is weak). It's fast paced and interesting, and isn't the usual holy-grail kind of search, exactly. There were a few elements I figured out before the end, and a few that took me by surprise even in the last few pages. That the plot centers on Shakespeare is icing on a delicious cake for this word-nerd. :-)