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A review by irenekaoru
The Eight by Katherine Neville
3.0
Unable to decide between 2 stars and 4, I settled on 3. i choose favorite authors for their command of language, not their plots. I can follow a Wharton or Waugh heroine around for pages as they stroll around a garden and go to tea. The Eight is a fabulously exciting, action-packed novel, filled with history and puzzles. It's also one of the more painfully, clumsily-written novels I've ever read. The story was unpredictable and entertaining; this novel wasn't "bad" but there are such better books to read. To the greedy reader in search of mind-bending puzzles and chronology-leaping historical fiction AND great writing, I recommend Umberto Eco, not this.
ETA: Skimming the other reviews, I notice two things. First, many readers read this book because they liked 'The Da Vinci Code' and second, many of those readers complain that the writing is too detailed, serious and otherwise difficult. This brings me to some unfortunate but unsurprising conclusions about people who liked 'The Da Vinci Code.'
ETA: Skimming the other reviews, I notice two things. First, many readers read this book because they liked 'The Da Vinci Code' and second, many of those readers complain that the writing is too detailed, serious and otherwise difficult. This brings me to some unfortunate but unsurprising conclusions about people who liked 'The Da Vinci Code.'