To Judge A Book: 2: The Pythagorian Solution by Joseph Badal

Let's see, where do I begin?

Joseph Badal, if you ever read this column, please for the love of all things literary find a different editor/proofreader. The amount of mistakes in the ibooks version of this book threatened to make this a failed read.

The first few pages were rather tedious.

However, the story soon developed into something fantastic. I absolutely loved the storyline. There was action, love, violence, friendship, ships, treasure, explosives, Nazis, people killing Nazis. It was amazing. There was so much depth to this book it was...not difficult to keep up with but rich in a variety of schemes that the author carefully and delicately placed together nearly perfectly (except for the typos!!!!!).

It takes place in Greece, modern day, and tracks the series of events that take place after a fisherman's death in the arms of an American tourist who has come to Greece to start a new life after his recent divorce.

I must advise, however, that there are some intense violent scenes in the book, as well as a sexual encounter and a vicious, violent, brutal rape.

I wish that with the plot that the book had been better. With the typos, and the rape scene, it was difficult at times to cope with the horrendous bi-polar quality of the book.