Four-star review of The Castle by Nikki Moyes
This novelette, or perhaps it would be better to call it a short story, combines a virtual reality game with an actual fantasy environment. A twelve-year-old girl, Risha Suri, who has her father’s memories, must reach Castle One before a warlord leading a battalion in a simulation destroys it. The twist at the end worked for me. This well-written story is the beginning of a series. I’m intrigued enough to read more.
Three-star review of Inferno by Dan Brown
When there was action and an advancement of the plot, this was a decent story about a virus and the race to stop its release. Art historian Robert Langdon, star of the popular DaVinci Code and other books by Brown wakes up not knowing how he ended up in a hospital in Florence. All of the info dumps on art and architecture as well as Dante’s Inferno drown the plot and instead of an exciting story, it’s boring. There are also so many holes in the plot as if Brown went off on a tangent and then twisted the story to explain it.
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