Lexicon

Lexicon by Max Barry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I immensely enjoyed this book. It had great characters, thrilling plot, mystery, love, and WORDS! Words wield immense power in this present day sci-fi thriller, and there were little nuggets of word histories and mythologies spread throughout. The action and pacing were superb...one of the few books I read this year that I literally could not put down. Only a couple of vague plot points and inconsistencies keep this from being outstanding....my main gripe: if poets (the people who know how to wield words like weapons) are in such control of their emotions, reactions, and words, then there should not be the voluminous amount of swearing. Swearing is crude, reactive, and frankly not creative, so seems completely out of character for poets to use.


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