The Rook

by Daniel O'Malley

Book Overview

Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead.

Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy.

Suspenseful and hilarious, The Rook is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime.

"Utterly convincing and engrossing -- -totally thought-through and frequently hilarious....Even this aging, jaded, attention-deficit-disordered critic was blown away."-Lev Grossman, Time

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316098809
• ISBN13: 9780316098809
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Love!

I love this book and i’m finishing the sequel now. It can get slow at some points but if you power through those parts i promise you the humor and wittiness along with the fast paced action packed parts will in fact make up for it.

Skillfully Written

This book aptly takes you on a journey that mixes the supernatural, personal growth, and fragile diplomacy. It's extremely detail oriented so if you're looking for a quick read, this isn't it. However, if you have the patience to immerse yourself in Myfanwy Thomas' world, the pay off is wonderful!

Very slow.

I honestly don’t understand the hype behind this book. There are whole chapters that read like Wikipedia pages and don’t have anything to do with the actual plot. Speaking of, the plot doesn’t begin until more than halfway through the book, and the info dumping was taken to a whole new level.

This was an exciting book. I didn’t want to stop reading.

This was a great book. Very exciting, suspenseful story. Several twists in the plot.

An amazing fantasy and mystery book that I could not put down. If I could give it ten stars I would!