This is the first in a trilogy, and one of those rare books that I had to force myself to stop reading in order to get some sleep. The premise is brilliant (pun intended): an strange phenom began in the early 1980s in which babies were born super gifted; their gifts varied as did their level of b...
A thriller with a slight science fiction edge, this book is set in the present day - but in a world where for the past 30+ years, about one percent of children have been born with extreme savant/genius like talents, for reasons no one knows. The protagonist is himself one of these "abnorms," but...
Nothing spectacular about this book. It was a good follow-on to the previous novel, but lacked some of the heart that showed in the first. Also, I disagreed with the choice of making one of the Brilliants into something more super-natural, rather than an extension-of-natural as all other Brilli...
Her ne kadar akıcı bir kitap olmuşsada farklı bir olay ve anlatım tarzı kullanılmamış...Bu tarz da sayısız kitap ve film örnekleri var..Sadece kişi ve yer isimleri değiştirilmiş mistik bir olay olan hafıza kaybı ve cinayeti konu alıyor..."Her hayvan kaçabilir,düşünüp çözüm bulmak ise sadece insan...
Let me state up front that I had problems with the book. The characters were too immature word for me as a reader. All four of our main characters were just too damn whiney and self-absorbed for me to really care what happened to them. We have one individual who complains that he always wanted to...
Good but not great. I read Marcus Sakey's book Brilliance which I thought was excellent and it made me want to read more from this author. This book just didn't do it for me though. The pacing was just too slow and it was just far too easy to put this book down and walk away from it; and there...