Mike (the Paladin)'s Reviews > The Quick

Well...what can I say? (I thought about just ending the review there and letting everyone sort figure i mean it).

This book is another very slowly building story leaning on some (slightly) usual characters. Almost anything I tell you about the book/story/plot will constitute a spoiler as the entire book is geared to the slow build up and contributes to the building of said plot. Our two main protagonists are introduced as children and the formative events of their lives begin there. We are also introduced to the unusual and very secretive Aegolius Club.

There are many interesting characters in the book and the idea behind the book would seem to have made an excellent novel.

So, why is it that I had to drag myself back to it every time I laid it aside and that I couldn't wait to get through it. Mostly when I was supposed to be involved in the atmosphere of the book and on the edge of my seat I was actually (at least quite often) stifling yawns.

The book is a good idea, the writing is slow and the end is rather expected. It is in many ways (as the synopsis indicates) somewhat like The Historian .

I wasn't fond of it either.