'Malice Box' reviewed: 'complex and highly original'

"The Malice Box" gets its first review, from Shots Magazine, a crime and thiller pub. It’s crazy good.

You need to find “Malice Box” in the left column and click. Here’s a bit:

This is one of the strangest and one of the best novels I have read for a very long time.

Its complex and highly original plot combines the alchemical writings of Isaac Newton and the mystical elements of the three major religions to send its characters on a thrilling journey of self discovery. The architecture and history of New York also play an important part in the narrative with Reckliss having to visit famous landmarks and hidden corners of the city to complete the seven trials.

There are, obviously, parallels to be drawn between this book and the Da Vinci Code, of the two I would say The Malice Box emerges as the more satisfying read. Not least because however outlandish the situations he places them in Langfield never fails to treat his characters as human beings liable to be changed and even destroyed by their experiences, rather than props to be used in the playing out of an over familiar conspiracy theory.

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- posted by Amy @ 2/02/2007 04:20:00 PM