Ah, Dan Brown. I suspect that he will split people down the middle, you either like him, or you don't. There will be no middle ground. No thinking that books was good, that other one not so much
But I quite like him.
It is autumn, and I have four weeks off work on gardening leave. And in one of those weeks, I was able to get through the majority of Dan Brown's books. I read reasonably quickly, depending on the book. But I was able to get through a book a day. That in truth says a bit about the books. They follow a similar pattern and are easy going. Easy to follow and easy to read.
His books are also well researched. He has put some thought into them and what he is ultimately writing about. The mocked Da Vinci code (the film certainly) is a good example of this, and makes the story more rounded because of this.
The characters are not tricky to understand, they follow a uniform 1 boy and 1 girl and the rest falls in to place. The main focal point on the majority of the novels is Robert Langdon, the symbolical professor from Harvard with his Micky Mouse watch. A good character with a little bit of depth, but also a good upstanding and moral compass. Not necessarily relatable but a nice guy that you like.
In terms of the books, I really liked Deception Point. A non Langdon book, it contains a good sense of suspense with the Arctic setting and with the various twists is a good story.
But if you only read one, make it Inferno. It seems to really empathise the underlying themes and also plot and characters. It also provides a cliffhanger ending. A what now? Which in my opinion proves very strong. It gets you thinking. Apparently there is film due out in late 2016. That will make interesting watching.
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