[Superlucky]

Frankly, I'm astonished that anyone who enjoyed A & D and TDVC found this book at all satisfying. Those books may have been terribly written, but I couldn't put them down. I kept having to force myself to finish TLS. There just were no surprises. The reveal on the antagonist was actually tedious because I knew who he was several hundred pages before the big "revelation", as did everyone but the characters themselves. The conspiracy theory angle was dull this time because he never made me really believe that the Masons could posses anything of interest.

Admittedly I have complained about DB's annoying use of deus ex machinas (jumping out of an helicopter - really?), but now I admit that any plot contrivance, no matter how absurd, is better than page after page of dialogue (including an entire lecture!) about new-age philosophy.