Grossman, Lev - CODEX

[LJ Roberts]

CODEX – OK Lev Grossman

Up-and-coming investment banker wunderkind Edward Wozny is dropped into the musty realm of medieval literature when a powerful client's commission to uncrate and organize a library. The diversion quickly becomes an obsession after he enlists the help of the quirkily attractive scholar Margaret Napier. Together they discover his employer, the mysterious Duchess of Bowmry, is in a race with her husband to locate an apocryphal codex that could destroy the Bowmry name. Meanwhile, Edward becomes engrossed in an addictive computer game that bears an uncanny similarity to the object of his search and accelerates his transformation from Wall Street wizard into shiftless dreamer.

I was rather disappointed in this book. The information on the history relating to books was interesting, I’m not the least involved in computer games so that was lost on me, and the story rather plodded along without real suspense, without a murder, and with a horribly-done ending. I definitely wouldn’t compare it to Di Vinci Code in terms of a page-turning read but if you’ve nothing else on the shelf or are stuck at the airport, it’s okay.