Joseph M. Chiron

First the good. I found the book easy to read. The pacing of the book was good. I liked most of the characters.

However, there were just too many things that never came together for me -- the religious aspect, the flagellants, the earthquakes, the stem cell therapy gone bad, the tagging, etc. They all seemed to be just thrown together.

I was torn between 3 stars and 4 stars, but went to 3 because I found the ending disappointing. Plus, I had an issue with the table of contents. I was using it to give myself the context of each chapter, because the chapters tend to skip backwards in time occasionally. Until I saw that the table of contents chapter descriptions weren't matching the in-book chapter descriptions. Looking back now, I see that only affected five chapters. But the first examples I hit were enough to stop me from using the table of contents.… (mais)