The Book of Fate
by Brad Meltzer
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Author: Brad MeltzerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-09-05
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Warner Books
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Book Review: Fun but flawed escapist fiction
Summary: 4 Stars
I have a more favorable impression of The Book of Fate than some other reviewers at this site. I guess I was fortunate to have no expectation of the novel's nature: I ordered it after reading The Tenth Justice, believing Meltzer has some potential as a storyteller (an opinion I still hold). I didn't see the novel's cover before I bought it and didn't associate the title with the supernatural or with the myriad stories that have pretty much exhausted the Masons as a source of dramatic intrigue. Some of the negative reviews seem to be reviewing the title and the cover art more than the novel; since I formed no judgments about them before buying the book, the cover art and title have no bearing on my opinion of the novel.
I enjoyed the Book of Fate for what it is: fast-paced escapist fiction. The plot is a little shaky but it holds together at the end -- although it could use a bit up duct tape here and there to patch it up. (Fortunately, the Book of Fate does not need plot hole repair to the same degree as The Tenth Justice.) None of the characters are terribly original -- the crazed assassin is the stereotypical mother of all crazed assassins -- but the story speeds right along to an ending that is satisfying, if conventional. For me, at least, The Book of Fate worked, telling a fun, absorbing story that overcame enough of its failings to merit four stars.
Summary of The Book of Fate
Brad Meltzer's #1 New York Times bestseller featuring a two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson and a present-day conspiracy at the highest level of power ."Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming."
So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure Wes and kill Boyle. Now, eight years later, Boyle has been spotted alive. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back into disturbing secrets buried in Freemason history, a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, and a two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson that conceals secrets worth dying for.
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