Don't Judge 'The Plotters' By Its Cover ... Blurb
Un-Su Kim's novel about competing guilds of assassins in Seoul, South Korea, is billed as a mashup of Tarantino and Camus, but our reviewer says the reality is somewhat more Camus and less compelling.
They say you shouldn't judge books by their covers, but seldom are we warned you shouldn't judge them by their blurbs. Logic indicates it's useless to grow too attached to blurbs, and yet they seem to color our perception of novels. Sometimes blurbs taunt us, sometimes they underwhelm us (how many "most exciting
