Full Review
Plot Summary: This book is at first about simply a murder mystery in which Robert Langdon, a symbologist in Paris for a conference, is suspected by Bezu Fache, the Paris chief of police. Langdon is then kidnapped/rescued by the murder victim's grand daughter. Following a miraculously written escape from the Louvre, Sophie (the grand daughter) and Langdon follow a trail of clues left in place by the murder victim in his last minutes of life. This leads them to all sorts of places in Paris, and eventually England, in the search for the Holy Grail, all the while being chased by a mysterious character who isn't unveiled to us until one of the final chapters, in one of the finest, most well written end-of-book twists I've ever read. Here I've given only minor details, because describing the entire plot is pretty daunting to me, seeing as how vast and complicated it is. I've done the best I can here.
The reason I've given this book five stars is because of the plot, and......
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Approximate Word Count: 557
Approximate Pages: 3 (260 words per double-spaced page) |