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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
So clearly this book took me a month to read. I think this book is much longer than it really needs to be... but despite that fact it isn't like it is bad. If I could get myself to start reading it I usually could stick with it. The story itself was enjoyable... just drawn out. I don't think I'll be reading Dan Brown anytime soon... but that's beside the point. All and all... the book was okay. I'm looking forward to moving onto other things tho...
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was a reread. I had read it once before and I remember liking it a lot, although that had been at least five or six years ago. It was even better the second time around.
Very fast paced and very good with the suspense. Huge, fun thriller.
Very fast paced and very good with the suspense. Huge, fun thriller.
This is my first-ever Dan Brown book. I know, I know. I'm behind the times. Anyway, I LOVED this book! What a super fast read! Every page was exciting and it had a lot of my favorite things: the arctic, glaciers, ice, geology, nerdy scientists, engineers, and a strong female lead. I wasn't sure about the politics aspect of it, but I felt it was handled in a good way. I'd read this again.
Great premise, but...
I liked the premise of the story, but the writing was lacking. Changing POV in a paragraph, heavy handed end of chapter hooks, sometimes weak descriptions.
Definitely not what I expected from Dan Brown.
I liked the premise of the story, but the writing was lacking. Changing POV in a paragraph, heavy handed end of chapter hooks, sometimes weak descriptions.
Definitely not what I expected from Dan Brown.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
A taut thriller that takes some time to get its legs under it and get moving but once it does, oh my! does it deliver. A lot of science and a lor of cutting edge tech in the hands of political and military operatives. You can tell there is some age to this by the use of some of the tech in it, but that does not detract from the edginess of the storyline. A good Dan Brown novel.
I just finished a Master Class taught by Dan Brown on writing, and he mentioned he'd written a book set in the arctic circle. I'm writing one set in Antarctica so I looked it up and gave it a try. He's such an amazing writer, but I just can't stomach his topics, his politics, his religion, and what he seems to try to pass off as scientific fact... this is at least the second book of his that I couldn't finish just because I was too annoyed. In this case it was due to his pushing not just evolution, but panspermia (the idea that, since there isn't enough time on earth for evolution to have occurred, life here was 'seeded' by aliens, where somehow evolution was able to have occurred because maybe there was dramatically more time?). Such a preposterous idea. Only people desperately trying to avoid the conclusion that there's a God would ever subscribe to it.
adventurous
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:
No