The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
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Book Reviews of The Wheel of Darkness
Book Review: Do you like Dan Brown's work?
Summary: 2 Stars
If you like Dan Brown, you may also like "Wheel." It's over descriptive, I mean, how many corridors and stairs and tunnels can one endure? Gets pretty boring.
I prefer a fast moving story with character depth. These characters had nothing interesting about them. They were just stick figures running about, and about, and about.
I don't recommend this book.
Book Review: slipping
Summary: 2 Stars
They are slipping and the magic is fading. I hope they can get it back. but this is their worst effort since they started. Silly plot,disorganized fluff.Book Review: Disappointed
Summary: 1 Stars
HUGE Pendergast fan. Got hooked the moment I read Relic. I have also read all the other Preston/Child collaborations and enjoyed them. This book, however, was a waste of time. The beginning had some potential but once they got on the boat, it was just bland, ho-hum, run of the mill literary shlock. Pendergast is reduced to some 2 bit detective. I, unlike other people, enjoy the character of Constance Greene but here, she is written in like some throw away character. The other new characters on the boat and their side stories were boring. The "suspenseful" incident to the boat was anything but. Since I didn't care about the characters, I couldn't care less what happened to them. The writing just seemed listless and it translated into the characters and the story. The bit about the casino was pedestrian at best. It was almost bad plagerism from the book 'Bringing Down the House' by Ben Mezrich. So crestfallen. Where is that wonderfully enigmatic brilliant 'FBI' agent? I hope this is just a minor bump in the road and that Cemetary Dance will be better. If not, what a waste of an absolutely fantastic character.Book Review: Please, Please save your money
Summary: 1 Stars
Though I bought this book at a sale price, I still request my money back if I could. Never have I read a book that so intellectually and on a basic entertainment level disappointed me more than this novel. Preston and Child try to combine Sherlock Holmes with any Dan Brown novel you have read. Their ideas are underdeveloped, while they try to pass off the little knowledge they research for the given subject as a complete and thorough researched topic. They randomly pick up topics that are current with whatever they were writing and believe that by not explaining it in the book, they can get away with passing it off as information they extensively looked up. The conversations between characters were so predictable and shallow, that as you are reading it, you are wondering why you haven't finally given up and moved onto a new book. The topic of the book started out as promising, which is why I was attracted to it in the first place, but it failed to deliver on a creative idea. The Wheel of DarknessBook Review: Don't bother!
Summary: 1 Stars
The best word I can think of to describe this book is LAME! I'm a big fan of Preston and Childs' previous works, but this one was a stinker. The other negative reviews mirror my sentiments exactly. Don't waste your time with this one, you'll end up disappointed.