A review by lilybuddy
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Oh jeez. I started this book for the 3rd time because I never understood it well and I hoped the new TV series would give me some handholds. It did! But the book is very different than the show. And quite a bit longer. With a lot of explanations. And more explanations. And expositions. Sometimes multiple times about the same thing.

Sometimes I just skipped entire paragraph because Langdon was waxing poetic about a building that didn't matter for the plot.

I get now why I could hardly follow it the first 2 times. I could barely follow it now. The story gets buried beneath the author's apparent need to prove how much research he did, which is an impressive amount, it has to be said. 

All in all, I'm glad I read it again but I'm less enthused than I thought I'd be.
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