Author: Dan Brown
Genre: Thriller
Pages (words): 496 (N/A)
Readability: N/A
Rating (out of 5 stars): ****
Reviewed by: Ben
Description: Robert Langdon is a Harvard Professor of symbology who gets called to Europe to help solve a murder mystery. The trail of the murderer is marked by ancient symbols which lead him across Rome in a quest to save the Vatican.
Thoughts: The perfect summer-reading kind of a book. This book was a real page-turner and I really enjoyed it all the way through. There were enough twists to keep me guessing all the way until the end, and the way that Brown weaves history, art, religion, and science together really is impressive. A little implausible, but impressive just the same. I would say that the only knock on the book was that it is pretty similar to The Da Vinci Code, but that's why I read it in the first place, so I shouldn't complain. Guess I'll have to read The Lost Symbol the next time I get in the mood for this kind of a book!
Disclaimer: This book was pretty gory. Several people are killed in really gruesome ways. I don't recall too many swear words, however.
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