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The Venetian Betrayal: A Novel
by Steve Berry
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Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Berry's worst book
  I don't like to write negative reviews, but this book is terrible. I know Steve Berry doesn't produce great literature, but here the writing is so bad--short, clunky sentences; cartoonish, cardboard characters; and stilted dialogue--and the plot is so ridiculous that I had to force myself to finish the book. I ended up just skipping over the last 40 or so pages. There are some unbelievable lapses in editing. For example, Iran is described as "a harbinger of terrorists" and there is "an eloquent Chinese... more info

• the best in the series!
  the venetian betrayal is the best of the cotton malone series, so far! well, imo, that is! this one had it all, action, history, mystery, everything!
  this is my favorite berry book, the amber room is now second!
  i'm looking forward to reading the next in the series!

• Entertaining but unbelievable in spots...
  Steve Berry has a knack for taking a piece of history and weaving a fictional story around that history. Berry has used this formula to good effect in everything he has written, including the latest--The Venetian Betrayal. My husband and I listened to the unabridged CDs on a very long road trip, and it kept us entertained for 14 long hours, and then some. But comparing The Venetian Betrayal to his other works, it's not quite a strong.
  The piece of history in The Venetian Betrayal is the search for the... more info

• Great Reading
  This book was absolutely fantastic reading. This is the first time I read any of his books and it held my attention from beginning to end and it took me only three days to read and absorb it and this being during the olympics on TV also. Like I said it was a great book and I have a few others of his and I am going to start reading them now. I am awaiting to others that I have preordered.

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