cedar_grove | One of Three Book Reviews.

"Even an artificial language is real. Star Trek Fans insisted that the Klingon language be made real. Tolkien invented languages for his characters, human and non-human. Peiple are always creating languages. It's one of the things we do that sets us apart from every other creature on the planet" Prof. Lourds, The Lucifer Code by Charles Brokaw

The book is a very easy read in a kind of "Indianna Jones meets the Davinci Code" kind of way. However, an easy read doesn't mean it is a well written piece. I found myself getting wound up by redundancies in the text that should have been picked up by the editor, much less never written in the first place, for example, "dead corpse."

The other problem with the book was that it couldn't decide what genre and/or approach it was going to take. Was it to be an action/adventure novel... a mystery...? Or, with the 'twist' at the end, a little 'fantasy/horror' thrown in for good measure.

If you can see past that, and want to read a tale where everything happens, one thing after another, (you could argue that this gives the novel pace), then you'll probably enjoy this book. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy it, just that I could see there was a lot wrong with it, from a writer's point of view.