Well, obviously it was nothing like "The da Vinci Code", not that I expected it to be, but even if it were as good as "Angels and Demons" I would have been satisfied. It barely went above "The Lost Symbol".

Dan Brown tried something new in this book, and tried to tackle one of the most intriguing question that mankind has ever asked, "Where do we come from?" The next question is of course where we are headed. And both the answers that the character provided were anti-climatic. One because we kind of already know the answer to that question, the other because it has already been refuted.

The way Dan Brown created suspense at many a place seemed forced and useless, having no relevance whatsoever to the overall plot of the book, and those stupid cliffhangers just irritates you without an iota of intrigue. Oh, and right in the beginning of the book, a part of plot becomes so painfully obvious that at one point I was thinking about about skipping the entire book and just see if the plot ends as I thought it would (didn't skip pages, but in the end it ended exactly the way I thought it would), aka boring end!

In any case, it was an okayish book. Probably not worth spending extra money on buying a hard-bound though.

Merged review:

Well, obviously it was nothing like "The da Vinci Code", not that I expected it to be, but even if it were as good as "Angels and Demons" I would have been satisfied. It barely went above "The Lost Symbol".

Dan Brown tried something new in this book, and tried to tackle one of the most intriguing question that mankind has ever asked, "Where do we come from?" The next question is of course where we are headed. And both the answers that the character provided were anti-climatic. One because we kind of already know the answer to that question, the other because it has already been refuted.

The way Dan Brown created suspense at many a place seemed forced and useless, having no relevance whatsoever to the overall plot of the book, and those stupid cliffhangers just irritates you without an iota of intrigue. Oh, and right in the beginning of the book, a part of plot becomes so painfully obvious that at one point I was thinking about about skipping the entire book and just see if the plot ends as I thought it would (didn't skip pages, but in the end it ended exactly the way I thought it would), aka boring end!

In any case, it was an okayish book. Probably not worth spending extra money on buying a hard-bound though.

Merged review:

Well, obviously it was nothing like "The da Vinci Code", not that I expected it to be, but even if it were as good as "Angels and Demons" I would have been satisfied. It barely went above "The Lost Symbol".

Dan Brown tried something new in this book, and tried to tackle one of the most intriguing question that mankind has ever asked, "Where do we come from?" The next question is of course where we are headed. And both the answers that the character provided were anti-climatic. One because we kind of already know the answer to that question, the other because it has already been refuted.

The way Dan Brown created suspense at many a place seemed forced and useless, having no relevance whatsoever to the overall plot of the book, and those stupid cliffhangers just irritates you without an iota of intrigue. Oh, and right in the beginning of the book, a part of plot becomes so painfully obvious that at one point I was thinking about about skipping the entire book and just see if the plot ends as I thought it would (didn't skip pages, but in the end it ended exactly the way I thought it would), aka boring end!

In any case, it was an okayish book. Probably not worth spending extra money on buying a hard-bound though.