Sean Randall reviewed Brilliance by Marcus Sakey
Review of 'Brilliance' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
"But watching the children play—they’d moved to a new game, where a little girl spun once, then closed her eyes and answered detailed questions about everything in the room, down to the number of buttons on Alice’s dress—Cooper saw a whole generation of abnorms growing up right under the noses of the DAR, unreported, untested, untracked. The implications were enormous."
I found this hard to put down, because the action was so well written. I see book after book, touted as the next James Bond or Jason Bourne. This book just breathes, doesn't try and impress you by saying how wonderful it's supposed to be, and comes out the richer for that humility.
A friend pointed out the lack of character development. and, yes, there is a predictability to both the book as a whole and Cooper's specific plays. But you don't read this sort of book for detailed psychoanalysis, …
"But watching the children play—they’d moved to a new game, where a little girl spun once, then closed her eyes and answered detailed questions about everything in the room, down to the number of buttons on Alice’s dress—Cooper saw a whole generation of abnorms growing up right under the noses of the DAR, unreported, untested, untracked. The implications were enormous."
I found this hard to put down, because the action was so well written. I see book after book, touted as the next James Bond or Jason Bourne. This book just breathes, doesn't try and impress you by saying how wonderful it's supposed to be, and comes out the richer for that humility.
A friend pointed out the lack of character development. and, yes, there is a predictability to both the book as a whole and Cooper's specific plays. But you don't read this sort of book for detailed psychoanalysis, you read it for a thrill and a dollop of science. Sakey delivers!
