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alexauthorshay 's review for:
The Genius Wars
by Catherine Jinks
Better than the last book in terms of Cadel actually doing instead of sitting back and whining. But 99% of the book was pure speculation; Cadel saying it must be so-and-so doing this or some other so-and-so doing that. There's no real confirmation that he's right about any of it until halfway through the book, and even then it doesn't answer all the questions. So Cadel goes to extreme lengths to show he's right. The whole book is a bit of a long shot, even given the subject matter and the things that happened in the previous two books.
Ironically, I liked the ending. It made sense and provided decent drama/suspense/etc. Everything leading up to that felt disembodied from it, though. Cadel can calculate probabilities and all that, but that didn't convince me as a reader that he was necessarily on the right track about what he thought was going on. There wasn't enough proof along the way for it to be believable for me.
Ironically, I liked the ending. It made sense and provided decent drama/suspense/etc. Everything leading up to that felt disembodied from it, though. Cadel can calculate probabilities and all that, but that didn't convince me as a reader that he was necessarily on the right track about what he thought was going on. There wasn't enough proof along the way for it to be believable for me.