It reminded me of when you write assignments at school and you have to put quotes and references in to prove you know what you're talking about. The thing that finally stopped me from reading was the amount of French phrases throughout it. I did try to get through it but it felt like a chore to read. After reading that many pages of a book you should feel like you know the characters, but they bored me. The main characters lacked personality and I didn't like any of them. It could have done with a very thorough edit before it made it to print. It was incredibly slow-going and the flowery prose, littered with cliche, odd word usage and unnecessary description, was hard work to read. I abandoned this book about a fifth of the way in. I've been wanting to read it for a while, but noticed it shortly after I'd finished reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, and as it sounded similar I decided to leave it a while before I picked it up. I was really disappointed with this book.
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