{"id":780,"date":"2013-09-21T07:23:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:27:34","slug":"review-the-abomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/review-the-abomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Abomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16248320\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1369158584m\/16248320.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Abomination\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16248320\">The Abomination<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7057860\">Jonathan  Holt<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/724515812\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      Feminism and war crimes and politics, conspiracy theories and cyber space and corruption, Venice and Croatia and a tiny haunted island, the mafia, the Catholic church, and sex. <i>The Abomination<\/i> has it all.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the cover of this book in a shop, was intrigued by a blurb that said it was about hackers in Venice, put it on my to-read list, and was surprised when the library had it ready for me almost immediately. The point is, there was some momentum involved in getting me into the book before I had time to know better.<\/p>\n<p>Because for all those subject I mentioned above, <i>The Abomination<\/i> doesn\u2019t really go very deeply into any of them. It\u2019s a meager treatment of any of them at all, although Jonathan Holt, to his credit, balances them all out and makes them work together.<\/p>\n<p>As thrillers go, <i>The Abomination<\/i> nearly satisfies. It\u2019s sort of like Dan Brown mixed with Stieg Larsson. But with better sentence craft than Brown and fewer sexual deviants than Larson. And it\u2019s the first book in a trilogy, so for book-eaters looking for a drawn-out feast, as least there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I\u2019ll probably pass on the sequels. Maybe I\u2019ll watch the film versions when they come out.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/724515812\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abomination by Jonathan Holt My rating: 2 of 5 stars Feminism and war crimes and politics, conspiracy theories and cyber space and corruption, Venice and Croatia and a tiny haunted island, the mafia, the Catholic church, and sex. The Abomination has it all. 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