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adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Look, you know what you're getting with Dan Brown. It was fine. It was a quick read. And it was a fun little escape from harder reads. But it's not fine literature, or anything particularly deep. It's bubble gum. Sometimes that's all you need.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
So I have loved past books of Dan Browns but this one was not a fave. Maybe it's the current political climate that made me unhappy while reading this? Reading this book, that centers around the overpopulation of the Earth, was SUPER depressing. It added another frustration to things I am socially conscious about (not that I was completely unaware to the perils of overpopulation) just that I had not been forced to think in depth about it as much as I did while reading this book.
I wasn't a big fan of the supporting characters and was less than obsessed with Langdon's experience as well. Not a bad book, but I'm not going to recommend it, unless you're a Dan Brown diehard.
I wasn't a big fan of the supporting characters and was less than obsessed with Langdon's experience as well. Not a bad book, but I'm not going to recommend it, unless you're a Dan Brown diehard.
A fun typical Dan Brown novel-fast paced with enough history and intellectual concepts to make me feel like the book isn't a total guilty pleasure, and enough unbelievability to make his conspiracy theories seem not too scary or realistic.
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was an ok read (2 or 2.5 stars max), but is very very basic and formulaic. The majority of the plot twists could be spotted a mile off. I think Dan Brown is trying to make it easier on the Hollywood script writers by dumbing it down ready for the eventual US audiences rather than making a much better book and letting the script writers ruin it later.
What I found most painful in this book that the "bay guy" spent a lot of money and effort not be found out and to not get caught. So why does he create an international scavenger hunt filled with historically linked clues, giving the opportunity for someone to stop him. Why...? Well if he didn't, there would be no book, but apart from that, it makes absolutely no sense.
Sadly, the main ingredients that made Dan Brown's earlier books so fascinating (ie. Mixing history and reality into his fiction so well that you cannot tell the two apart) is completely missing here. There is only a basic link to Dante and even then, it really has no value apart from being an interesting history lesson. I really don't think this was as well thought out or as well researched as the Da Vinci Code.
Still worth the read, but I can't rate it any higher because I have read better thrillers from much lesser known authors.
What I found most painful in this book that the "bay guy" spent a lot of money and effort not be found out and to not get caught. So why does he create an international scavenger hunt filled with historically linked clues, giving the opportunity for someone to stop him. Why...? Well if he didn't, there would be no book, but apart from that, it makes absolutely no sense.
Sadly, the main ingredients that made Dan Brown's earlier books so fascinating (ie. Mixing history and reality into his fiction so well that you cannot tell the two apart) is completely missing here. There is only a basic link to Dante and even then, it really has no value apart from being an interesting history lesson. I really don't think this was as well thought out or as well researched as the Da Vinci Code.
Still worth the read, but I can't rate it any higher because I have read better thrillers from much lesser known authors.
The writing, as usual, is not very good. And the lengths Dan Brown went to for his misdirections almost made me give up reading this book about halfway through. But the central premise - there are too many people on Earth and the population is still growing - is true and scary and anything that helps spread that message is good.
Muy bueno! te mantiene enganchado durante toda la historia (como todos los libros de Dan Brown). Trata un tema MUY interesante con el que lidiamos hoy en día, y es interesante leer sobre su visión y posible solución al problema.