Rizal Code: La Pluma de Sangre

by Richard Vincent Narag

The Rizal Code: La Pluma De Sangre exposes the ways of a young physician named Dr. Rhavincer Cireon whose medical profession was turned aside for a stint which highlighted his special skills as self-practicing semiotician when he met the beautiful historical researcher Ryzhel Bach, the bearer of a mysterious document that remained inaudible in Philippine history. Together they sorted out Arcanumtic riddles, historical cryptographic artifacts hidden in the Philippine monuments, paintings and scripts devised by the Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal and the equally known hero Gat. Andres Bonifacio. A dilemma occured when a number of influential personalities came across their way to rob it for selfish motives for money and fame. The search has become more perplexing when they found out that the uncovered message in the document will change their entire life.

335 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Monalissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically, this novel is a portable brain jam-packed with arbitrary information that makes a surgery resident, medical doctor, archeo astronomer, biblical archeologist, computer elite, simeotician, ployglot, inventor, stage actor, poet, novelist, musician, guitarist, violinist, pianist, author, and Hebrew bible scholar—that is Dr. Richard Vincent Narag. Phew, it's impossible not to learn from this genius.

As I sort my thoughts on why I decided to rate it down from four stars to three, let me break down the things that I d̶e̶s̶p̶i̶s̶e̶d̶ disliked the most:


1. There were constant interruptions to define certain terminologies. The author used a lot of jargon words but the ‘general info quiz master’-like commercial popping out from time to time helped the reader to grasp the idea. However, it was pretentiously overdone throughout the book. Lol I'd never forget how he defined lock-picking.

2. There were subplots unjustly written and ostentatious, unrealistic conversations between the characters. Also, cliché. Cliché. Cliché.

3. The poor proofreading. I hope it gets a second edition though.


Written in third person (omniscient), the first few chapters were dry. But when things started to heat up with discovery upon discovery, that was when I hardly put it down. I couldn't express exactly how clever the author stitched one clue to another through medium I barely know in real life.

Anyway, imo, this book is one of those novels that are more effective when interpreted in film pictures. The novel was okay but it could be better.

Not the book I'd necessarily recommend but I really gained a lot from this—most especially with Philippine History. Kudos to this Filipino author.

[Marlon]

Gave it a chance but the frickin story is predictable and poor construction of words. This is my first time writing a review. Though, there are key points where it helped the history of the Philippines. Nevertheless, I do not recommend it to people wanting sense of entertainment. This can be considered by people who likes history.

[Robert Weise · Rating 1 out of 5]

Where to begin the writer is not shy claims to be a polymath medical doctor, surgeon, archaeologist, history of some repute, theologian with an expertise in Hebrew scholarly matters, engineering observer with a dose of expertise in ancient buildings. You get the idea !
The book from a structural format is a mess, run on sentences. Explanations of even the most of basic actions. He uses incorrect grammatically inappropriate context and presents idea after idea within a paragraph or two. It’s like he read some books and put all the information from those books in condense form here. He weaves from point to point without completing/corroborating any of his thesis statements.

I highly doubt this fellow even proofread his work or it could be a second language because of the superfluous words he uses over and over again.
Writer please next time you write a book have a professional proofreader go over the basics of writing. I cannot believe you had temerity to write this mess.