Review: Not as good as the 4 or 5 stars say
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2013
I don't know about the rest of you, but I dislike books that have way too much useless information about stuff completely irrelevant to the story.For instance, I don't care what color the interrogation room walls are.  I also don't care what wood an office desk is made out of.  Plus, I,(and probably many readers like me), want the story to be pretty fast and moving all the time.  Take as little time as possible with any back stories, most of which have nothing to do with the current story.As you might imagine, I found this book had way too much information about meaningless stuff that just made the book very boring.  I finished it as I thought the subject matter would be interesting.  It was, but the execution by the author was lacking.There was one fascinating tidbit; the author tells us about a few murders and one person appears to have been beaten up, but not once is there any description of this violence in the book.  Considering the main character is some sort of spy, this is quite the accomplishment.The Amazon book description does a better job of a summary than I can do.  Let's just say this was a nice idea not fully realized.One more issue I had with this book;The date at the top of Chapter Four is noted as April 2120 and the first sentence describes how magical the city of New York is in Spring.  The second sentence she writes "Older residents often grumbled about the city; many argued that the city had still not yet recovered properly from the fall of the Twin Towers...".As we all know, the fall of the Twin Towers happened in September 2001.  This means the above chapter time line is 119 year AFTER the fall of the Twin Towers!  So what "older residents" is the author talking about?  Any way you do the math, there will NOT be any "older residents" alive in 2120 to talk about or remember the Twin Towers.Don't insult your readers intelligence! This really bothered me.