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The Book of Air and Shadows
by Michael Gruber
from William Morrow

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Save your money and time
  Page 93. That's as far as I was willing to waste any more time waiting for this book to get to be worth reading.

• Engaging but not one for the ages
  If you like the DaVinci Code / Angels and Demons type of book this one will be for you - it is certainly better written than either of those, features more complete characters, and the mystery at its center is very enjoyable. But some of the characters are overly detailed but not really persons, while other very tangential characters are given more personhood than they warrant - "why am I learning so much about these people if this is all they are doing in the story?" The book also suffers something I have... more info

• The Book of Boredom and Dread
  What a waste of money and time! I did finish the book but it was torturous. I dreaded reading it but made myself complete it. Never again will I do that! I found the characters to be unbelievable and irritating. This book put me to sleep many times. My advice to anyone thinking of buying this book is a resounding NO! If you still aren't quite sure, at least go the library, check it out and save your money!

• A review of the first 56 pages
  That's because I only managed to slog my way through that many. Phooey on this book. Another author who is paid by the word, not the idea or story telling abilities. Way too many digressions (even the narrator admits to that), and the old manuscript in olde English was a trial as well.
  Life's too short to spend on books like this.

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