Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Het Bernini Mysterie by Dan Brown

14 reviews

m4rtt4's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

I admire Dan Brown for his ability to create these kinds of page-turners full of interesting facts. I'm not a huge fan of action books or movies where everything is centered around villains and violence, but all the nerdy stuff in this book surely made up for it :)

On the other hand, I really dislike Brown's way of writing characters, everything from creating backstories interesting enough to describing them in present day and action. I mean, of course Robert Langdon is as perfect as Brown's wanted him to be (bet he created him as a perfect version of his own self), but oh god, ARE THERE MORE TO FEMALE CHARACTERS THAN THEIR BODIES? Obviously there should be, but I wouldn't recommend using Brown's books as a guide to writing women. Or, tbh, any other characters either, so very one-dimensional, stereotypical, (and even racist) he made them all (apart from Langdon ofc). Especially the assassin — his actions and overall villain-ness didn't frustrate me nowhere near as his personality was written to be.

So, overall the story was adventurous and entertaining if you just treat most of the chacters as "necessary implementers to the required actions" and ignore their personal traits. Wouldn't recommend if you dislike science and/or history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Torture

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Sexism, and Suicide

yashirolevi's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense fast-paced

4.0

i suspect even a few years younger me wouldn't have enjoyed this as much as i did now over the past week. had i not had any pressing responsibilities, I'd have absolutely inhaled this in like, two days. the plot moved incredibly fast and there were so many moments i couldn't have predicted. this was particularly interesting for me since i believe i have not seen the movie adaptation either. really gripping and i felt that the author has done a magnificent job at researching for this novel. hope the next books won't let me down as i have my hopes up! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Violence

Moderate: Death, Religious bigotry, and Infidelity

Minor: Vomit

theredheded_bibliomaniac's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.25

As usual brilliant Symbiology, mind blowing treasure hunt ..and great plot..of course must read but I will say if we compare this and Da Vinci Code ..Da Vinci code is better .. 
Cemendable Job by Author his research and the Guts to publish  are praiseworthy..

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Religious bigotry, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Racism and Racial slurs

willemke's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual assault, Torture, Religious bigotry, and Ableism