Michelangelo's Notebook [Mass Market Paperback]

Paul Christopher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 5, 2012

Life may imitate art...but death follows it.

While studying art history at New York University, brilliant and beautiful Finn Ryan makes a startling discovery: a Michelangelo drawing of a dissected corpse-supposedly from the artist's near-mythical notebook. But that very night, someone breaks into her apartment-murdering her boyfriend and stealing the sketches she made of the drawing. Fleeing for her life, Finn heads to the address her mother had given her for emergencies, where she finds the enigmatic antiquarian book dealer, Michael Valentine. Together, they embark on a desperate race through the city-and through the pages of history itself-to expose an electrifying secret from the final days of World War II-a secret that lies in the dark labyrinthine heart of the Vatican.

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About the Author

Paul Christopher is the pseudonym of a bestselling novelist who lives in the Great Lakes region.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Onyx (June 5, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451411862
• ISBN-13: 978-0451411860
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #551,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Yawn, July 14, 2005

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Gary Turner (Powder Springs, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Michelangelo's Notebook (Mass Market Paperback)

After reading works like "Angels and Demons", this book looked great to me. I was very disappointed. The author (Christopher Hyde, using a psuedonym) has an interesting concept, based on truth. However, the story does not work. The book seems to drag. The story's main character, Finn, a twenty-something college student stumbles upon a drawing at the museum where she is employed. She recognizes it as Michelangelo's work. Her boss denies this and abruptly fires her. This leads to an attack on her life and propels her all over New York trying to find out why this incident has put her in jeopardy.
Again, a great premise, but a tedious book.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Author is too preoccupied with sex, July 2, 2007

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Bookworm "Bookworm" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michelangelo's Notebook (Mass Market Paperback)

Instead of reading a thrilling and suspenseful story, I instead had to read numerous, graphic references to the main character's body. I lost count of how many times the author described her breasts. It was silly, distracting, and a waste of time.

I'm not usually so harsh when reviewing a book, but really, there was no point to this book. The plot dragged, it was simply not suspenseful, and the author came off sounding like an over sexed teenaged boy.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, distasteful, an utter waste of time and energy, April 10, 2006

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Amy J. Courts "Ojyma" (Nashville, TN, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michelangelo's Notebook (Mass Market Paperback)

Horrible book. The story and sub-plots lack development and closure. The characters are undeveloped and act without motivation or reason, and make immense discoveries with unbelievably elementary ease.

The chapters bounce from boring sub-plot to boring sub-plot, yanking readers from one random storyline to the next without any end-of-chapter compelling twists to keep the reader even slightly interested in the next visitation. Those chapters which do capture the reader's interest invariably lead to even greater let-downs when the plot unravels at the hands of another new or randomly reintroduced, previously forgotten character. The end seems to be the collision of each subplot into the others, creating an explosion of unresolved nothingness.

Where a good story would draw each sub-plot together, tying each character inextricably to the others in such a way that the reader says, "oh, now THAT makes sense! I should have figured that out before!", this one leaves the reader going, "huh? He pulled this from that?"

Poorly contrived and poorly written, this book is decidedly a must-pass loser by a Dan Brown wannabe who never quite makes the grade.