The Sign

The blurb sold this book to me as it sounded like a Dan Brown novel which I had previously enjoyed. However, I was disappointed as it did not read as such. I found it difficult to get into due to the jumpy nature of the chapters.

Characters were hard to affiliate with as whenever something happened to them, just as I began to feel like I knew them a bit better, a new chapter took me somewhere else in the world. By the time I came back to that character I had forgotten a little about them. The story, however, did build into a crescendo that held my interest, even if the characters did not.

At times, the book felt like an attack on people of faith; not just the leaders, but also the common believers. As a believer myself, it was a little insulting to think that Khoury assumed I could be manipulated by pretty lights in the sky. I understand that this is fiction, but it has taken a lot less to incite religious hatred and war before.

This has not put me off the author; however, I will take a little less interest in the blurb next time, instead, waiting until I have read the book before making judgement.