The Cardinal of the Kremlin

While I cannot speak to the book itself, as I have yet to read it, the included EPUB available has such a rigid and practically unreadable default stylesheet that it required nearly a half-hour of applying a custom stylesheet just to be able to make it readable on my Nexus 7 (aside from stripping out the stylesheet entirely, which made it no better than a plain text file). Each level of the stylesheet applies its own overrides, so even if you want to change one global style, you wind up having to change each and every specific style individually. Clearly more thought was given to mimicking a paper format as closely as possible than to making it actually useful on modern paperless technology.

Boringly painful. I have read most of this series. But this is the worst book I have ever read. Far too many sub plots that leaves the reader completely bewildered. over 600 pages of page fillers. This book was definitely not riveting and after 200 + pages, I gave up. Less would have been more.

The author intertwines several different stories so there is never a dull moment. Great characters, loads of action, the best story I've ever read.