A week ago I wrote about the first book in the Robert Langdon series, Angels and Demons.. A wonderful book, the Genesis of the Robert Langdon adventures which transformed him from just a normal decorated Oxford Religion Symbology lecturer, to an Oxford Religion Symbology lecturer who had also helped the Vatican overcome the horrors of the reawoken illuminati.
Now he's back again, in the streets of France, searching for a century long treasure, and as always an enemy is on his tail, one who mustn't get to the holy grail first.
It was 12:30am when Robert was woken up by the unfamiliar ringtone of the telephone in his Paris Hotel room.
The ringer, being the front desk, apologized for the intrusion and informed him of an unplanned unfamiliar visitor he was about to be having.
After a few minutes, Robert was washed and delivered to the crime scene of Famous curator of the louvre Jacques Saunière as a symbology expert to help solve the case, not knowing that he was their prime suspect.
Robert then decides (more or less) to break out and find Jacques killer, not knowing that he had just embarked on a generations long quest through europe to find the most treasured artifact in history.
The holy grail.
I'd have to come up straight and say it. If I i were asked on a whim to rate this book.. I'd give it a 6.5/10...
Yet realistically, it's more of a 7.5 and the 6.5 I'd have given is just out of spite.
I find myself hating when a piece of media that is actually average surpasses a very wonderful and awfully better piece of the same media due to sheer popularity oof authors or controversial aspects.
This is exactly what happened between Angels and Demons and this book Da Vinci's Code.
The 2nd book of the Robert Langdon series pales considerably to the first in all aspects but in controversy.
This controversy going out of control is due to the relationship between fact and fiction which I spoke of in my last review.
In actuality, once I reached the truth about the Holy grail. I really had to take a step back and breathe to try and understand just what I was reading.
The controversy was a stellar 20/10. Mixing one of the most famous artists and his works with the most popular figure in human history and the most successful book created.
I really have nothing to say about this book despite that.
Like i said earlier, it dulls in comparison to the old book, yet that doesn't mean that this book is shit either.
The characters are good, setting and pace wondered even the plot was good. Yet I just had that sense of disappointment at the major hype compared to the actual read.
Quite an average book.
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