Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I checked out this book on Prime due to the glowing reviews here. Should have known they were all too perfect in their praise for the book and this author. Obviously they are all friends or family or smoking something I don't have access to. This book has all the earmarks of a self published work and although the author could benefit from professional editing I don't know if that would be enough to salvage this work. The characters are shallow, the plot undeveloped, transparent and predictable. For example, it was a no brainer to figure out the Guardian of the Peace (investigating police officer) was a shill for "The Order." And how about that name for the shadowy foe - real original, huh? And the character dialogue is just plain awkward and in many cases downright childish. All too often I felt like I was reading a paper written by a high school student - that's how bad the dialogue was. In short the writing just felt off. All the other reviewers have gone out of their way to compare this author to Dan Brown. I can assure you Dan Brown will not be losing any sleep worrying about competition from this writer. If you like the kind of genre Dan Brown produces, then read Dan Brown, James Rollins, Raymond Khoury or Steve Berry. But by all means avoid this author like the plague unless you like childish dialogue, undeveloped plots and themes that are plagiarized from other popular books and movies. This book is so bad in so many ways I simply cannot justify giving it more than one star.