I really enjoyed this book, right up to the ending which was meh. I went online to see what other people thought of the ending and it seems that most people agree that the book just seems to run out of steam and end abruptly. (Quite a sizeable minority seem to just really dislike everything about the book!).
To me though, it was worth the ride – a mysterious lost ancient book that hides a devastating secret – clues to follow and bad guy to avoid, (and a mysterious multiplayer video game adventure which may or may not be related….) what’s not to love!?
[Also, in reading other people’s reviews, I stumbled across mention of a book I had never heard of by JJ Abrams and a writer called Doug Dorst called ‘S’ and I spent £23 (shockingly expensive, I know) on an actual physical book (a thing I never thought I would do again) because the actual book is part of the story – with things like photos or written-on napkins between many of the pages, and hand-written annotations by several different people – so exciting. Sorry, this paragraph is a diversion and nothing to do with Codex!]
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