Reviews for The Book of Air and Shadows

The average rating for The Book of Air and Shadows based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-04-13 00:00:00 Robert Huber This COULD have been an amazing book. If only the author had just stuck to his very interesting plot, instead of continually sharing pointless details and side stories about the characters. The main story was fascinating: Letters leading to a secret cipher that when cracked would lead to a hidden, and previously unread Shakespeare play. But for some reason the author could not seem to stay with this story. He seemed more interested in telling the story of the sexual pursuits of his various unlikeable characters. The fact that the story was written from three different points-of-view was also confusing and distracting. If only someone could edit this book, take out the garbage, and put it back out there with the gem of the story that is hidden inside, everyone would be reading it right now!

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-06 00:00:00 Brenda Strawser I usually try to give each book the first one hundred pages before deciding to quit. If it hasn't hooked me by then, it's doubtful it'll hook me any time soon. I gave this book the first forty pages and gave up. It's almost mind-numbingly boring. Written in first-person, so we know the narrator makes it through whatever it is that's coming up, there is no hook early on to make me want to keep reading. The narrator rambles on about things not connected to the main lost-manuscript-of-Shakespeare plot that's supposed to be the story, taking me away from that story and losing me in the process. For a better and more interesting novel about a lost manuscript of Shakespeare, see Jennifer Lee Carrell's Interred with Their Bones.