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Utter Nonsense
This has got to be one of the very worst books I've ever read. It is ridiculous. Do not be concerned that it is controversial; it isn't. For that to be so it would have to make sense. Not even in an Indiana Jones movie have there been so many gun battles, explosions, secret underground chambers, rocket launches (sometimes underground--how do you do that?), sword waving monks who appear from nowhere toward the end--but who don't seem to deter our intrepid heroine from reading tiny scriptural notes on bones--pretty neat, translating ancient text, under fire and then performing an impromptu transfusion underground as well. I kept on to the end because I honestly wanted to see if it could get any more over the top. It did but still I'll never get those hours back. Is there any way to assign a book 1/2 a star--for unintended levity? Really, the rating system fails to indicate how bad this is. Be warned.
November 2012 · Unknown