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Luminarium: A Novel
by Alex Shakar
Couldn't Get Into It (6/11/2021)
I put this book down after one-third. Here's why: The writing was okay, but when you have sidebars in a novel, where the protagonist is questioning things, it's good to have a feel about the true antagonist. Here, one-third of the way in, I'm not sure why I should loathe the corporation that stole the software from the twins. We also don't get much background on George (currently in a coma) so we truly root for him to come out of it. Also, the main character just seemed a little blah. I understood his desire to seek the truth but not the why, or what might really be going on. It may wrap up at the end, but as this is the 24th book I've read this year, sadly, it is one I just didn't want to invest 460 pages of.
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