Threat

[threemonkeys]

A thought for Lev Grossman. With Codex, you clearly want to play in the same space as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown - the hunt for ancient mysteries which if revealed will shake someone or something to its core. The threat of that ancient book that exists in the hidden library has to be a real threat. It does not matter how easy to read you book is. If at the end your threat is revealed to be a tiny pop-gun then the impact if everything you have been hinging that threat on goes away. It deflates your work. Of course you may not realise how small the threat implied by your book is. But that is what research is for. Just sayin', y'know.

Comments

[littenz.livejournal.com]

I take it that this Codex was bit anti-climatic then?

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

The phrase "damp squib" came to mind.