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Dec 13, 2011cmackend rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I'm not sure if this is a book for "young adults" but I could only recommend it for beginning readers. There is action and suspense aplenty, more art and history references than you can shake a stick at, but the pacing is unbelievable; the dialogue is stilted and cringe-worthy, the plot hangs so loosely upon a mcguffin that it approaches satire. I mean even more so than a Dan Brown novel with whom the author's marketing machine has chosen to make Macintosh complicit. If I had nothing else to read I might have finished it because the premise is not un-interesting and there is a mystery of sorts. I would recommend this for teachers of low-vocab students who require high-interest, 'adult' stories they can use in their classrooms.