The Fire Seekers

I was really surprised by this novel. It has the academic mystery of The Da Vinci Code without all the cheesy "race to beat the bad guy" feel of a bad thriller. It is still a very engrossing page turner, but the action is interspersed with a hint of the supernatural, and (in my opinion) is much more......more

I feel dirty having read this. It's too terrible to even expound on why, groaning under the weight of its own cliches, each one more laughable than the next... because of course, what underachieving teenager ISN'T a master chef, diver, AND helicopter pilot?......more

Besides what others have so succintly said before me, I'd like to add that this is a Dan-Brown-wannabe effort. What's worse, though, is that whilst shaking my head at the cascade of improbabilities, I was never invested enough to care whether or not questions were answered. Probably because the ques......more

This book was just not very good. I'll go into more details in the spoilers but for a non-spoiler review, the villains'' whole evil plan, the thing that makes the entire book happen, doesn't make any sense. Nothing about their plan is evil. They're just doing evil things because... it makes the plot......more

While inventive, interesting and bound to make you think, The Fire Seekers was slow going for me. With it's mish mash of scientific, mathematical and sometimes religious talk, it took awhile to get into the story, grasp exactly what the plot was and really feel like I had a handle on the storyline. T......more