A huge untapped potential harm

The big readers like books and more books about books. That's what attracted me in the novel. The power of reading and words is not a concept in this story. This is a power held by Lettore, readers group capable of influencing anyone at its same reading short texts daily.
The idea was promising. But the results disappointed me both in form and substance. The style is simple, but very effective sometimes formatted with no real personality. Descriptions are usually purely factual and does not bring anything to the thickness of the story, the characters or the atmosphere. The author fails to create a real flesh for his characters that can be summarized in the sketches actually quite stereotypical: the brave hero guy with a healed wound quickly, the pretty heroine with an injury that will heal, the wicked wicked etc ...
The story flows easily into a relative slowness that did not bother me. But as the events are flat style and originality. All reads, relaxing rest and can be perfectly suited for entertaining reading. But do not ask for more.