The Friar's Lantern #1
The Friar's Lantern
Greg Hickey
The book is narrated in the second person by a unnamed character referred to as you. That this is a followup to the prequel novel, The Theory of Anything: A Short Intellectual Crime Novel until the person referred to as you shows up at Dr. David Solon's murder trial. What we learn is the fact not revealed in the previous book that the robber David encounters in the alley was none other than his wife's murderer.
The inference here is that the you here is the reader and throughout the book the reader is given either/or choices with shortcuts that lead to other points in the book.
As with the prequel the pace of the story is retarded by excessive detail that tends to become boring. Rather than create a sense of reality it just makes the reader wish the author would get on with it.
Once more the narrator is lost in probability theory. The subtle difference between chaos theory or randomness is lost on the average reader such as myself.
Even though the reader is given shortcuts depending on their choices I'm tempted to read both. Finally though I reached the end no wiser for my choices.
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