Author: Dan Brown
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rating: 8
I actually finished this book quite some time ago, and I am currently reading The Da Vinci Code. I am someone who loves conspiracy theories, symbols and hidden messages and this book gave me all of that PLUS mystery, something else I quite enjoy.
The book was about professor Robert Langdon, who is called in for his expertise on symbols in the case of the Illuminati. The symbol, burned into the skin of a dead scientist leads Langdon to the Vatican, where he must race to solve the mystery of who is harming the most religious men in the world and why.
The book takes place in the span of a day---over 300 pages all taking place in one day. To most, and when I think about it to me too, this seems excessive. It seems like things SHOULD drag on forever and honestly in some places they do, however for the most part the book is so full of action it truly flies by. There are multiple points of view and narrators in the book, and the use of the many story lines makes it so that 20 or so pages could go on about one specific instant and it does not seem weighty.
In the end, I liked the book enough to start the next one and I am glad that I did. The story left me wanting more- more story, more mystery and more symbols. There is some debate about whether Brown is a great author or a terrible one and I would have to side with those who think that he is great--I truly enjoyed the book, it got me to question many things that previously I had not thought about.
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