THE GOOD STUFF:
The Cipher Code is a heart-thrilling pressure-raising masterpiece from beginning to end. Even when the final plot was unveiled, I failed to recognize it’s significance – probably because I was busy soaking in the plot at a hyper-rate. This book was obviously well-researched and masterfully well-written. This book deserves awards – and a movie deal, it’s that good!
What kind of author’s mind can take these pieces of history and Biblical detail and weave it together in such a mind-blowing plot? Well, Terry Brennan does this masterfully.
THE MINOR DETAILS:
I tend to only want to mention the positive, but…the downside to this book was extremely minimal – a few editing mistakes. One of the chapters begins with them outside of a van they were just running away in – under a tree, near a building, etc. Then, the next paragraph they are back in the van and then piling out of it and the characters end up near those same locations again. The size of a book manuscripts is huge and with the number of rewrites that occur, mistakes could easily occur like this.
There are approximately six main characters and the author alternates between the use of their first and last names – and frequently conversations occur between three characters. I found the complexity of this forcing me to stop and sort out who was saying what to whom – it took away slightly from the focus of the plot.
MY CONCLUSION:
This book is excellent and I will be watching for more from Terry Brennan!!!
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