The Golden City
John Twelve Hawks
Doubleday Canada
The Golden City is the last book of the Fourth Realm ttrilogy by the reclusive, off-the-grid writer John Twelve Hawks. Like The Dark River, it continues to explore the themes introduced in the first novel of the series, and also like The Dark River, it does not up to expectation.
To read the publisher's blurb, you would think that the novel will take the reader on a fast-paced, literary journey that is part techno- thriller, part philosophical treatise, and part fantasy. Unfortunately, the plot is predictable, the philosophy unclear, and the fantasy -- well, let's just say that Twelve Hawks was a little too Nora Roberts and not enough Neal Stephenson. Two tired Harlequin warriors out of five.
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