The Equivoque Principle

by Darren Craske

Book Overview

This is a book of great wit and bravado; a circus of a novel with a central character who will sweep you off your feet and into this dark historical adventure. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190554894X
• ISBN13: 9781905548941
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Friday Project
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic!

This was an amazing story filled with all the right twists and turns to keep you reading. It was original and fun - I'll definitely be reading the next one too! I wouldn't be surprised if we see this as a movie in a few years.

Great Read

This is a great mystery story. I bought it on my Kindle and could not stop reading. Loved it.

Lots of Action

Part of what I enjoyed most was the timing and pace. There are lots of short, fast, action-oriented chapters with clever titles that add to the fun. I'll certainly check out the next book in the series.

Pretty good!

It does read a bit like a first novel, (not sure if it is) but it is a fun, good read. My daughter and I both read it and liked it. Neither one of us had trouble following the story as the other reviewer did. We thought that it moved right along and was very cohesive. If you enjoy detective stories like Holmes or the Barker series you may like this too. It is a little more fanciful than those, and a little silly (not in a bad way though). It was great for a freebie!

Unique

This book starts out with a good opening of a betrayal and pious rich paying others to do their dirty work. However, after the opening, things get confusing. The storyline is there, but it is rather difficult to follow. It's set back in old London and so the language and setting are obviously more difficult to see. In some cases of description and explanations, the writer takes you through fluidly so that you can see and sense the plot. In others, he is choppy at best. I found myself rubbing my head from the headache of just trying to understand what was happening. However, by the end I was rewarded with a great tale of adventure, mystery, thriller, murder, and a good ending. The characters are good. You find those you love and those you hate. Others, you understand and some you don't. Quaint, being the main character, is a good kind of guy you love to laugh at. His straightforwardness is what gets him into more trouble than most is worth and you definitely feel the connection to his fortune teller, Destine. With those two characters, you can not only visualize but even see through their eyes. Parm has had some bad luck but it hopefully changes, while Butter is a constant and reliable chracter. Sometimes it was difficult to visualize the chracters, but for the main ones you got. There is a funny fight scene where Quaint and Butter have to take on a mob of guys, and mystery and enough action to keep you occupied. Overall, the story is good but could be better written. Maybe the next one will be better with a setting in Egypt. I know I liked this one enough to give it a try.