Vittoria is the other main character, a very powerful woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to express it. He’s not particularly funny or witty but he then I feel sometimes this is the case with main characters as the supporting characters around them aren’t required to bring as much plot to the tale. Robert Langdon himself is a highly intelligent and to-the-point character.

But just the way it’s written does give you a lot of cliffhangers that can sometimes create a less than satisfying following chapter. Don’t get me wrong, there are some incredible theories in this book that’ll cause you to question what you may know about certain incredibly famous paintings and historical facts. The plot essentially goes: something interesting is found, something dangerous is suggested by this, Langdon works out what this means but doesn’t tell anyone, the next chapter starts elsewhere, then Langdon tells us what it means in the following chapter and it’s not all that important. To create these cliffhanger-endings for each chapter, Dan Brown often gives you false hope. That does bring me to my one slight problem with the way the book is written. Without a doubt, this plot will keep your interest piqued for a good amount of time you’re reading it. The mystery, conspiracy and history is absolutely my forte and so I absolutely loved reading this book. You can tell Bronw has knowledge of these symbols as there’s a lot of research done into the background of many of the mysterious goings-on in the book. The plot has you gripped from every early on and then for the next few hundred pages continues to keep you on the edge of your hypothetical seat with the ending of each chapter. The symbol suggests an ancient brotherhood by the name of the Illuminati, the most powerful underground organisation to ever walk the earth, have reappeared and intend on doing something big and dangerous.

Plot – 4.5/5Īngels & Demons is all about Robert Langdon, a world-renowned symbologist being summoned to a Swiss research facility after a physicist has been murdered and had a mysterious symbol seared into his chest. And so begins a highly gripping book that leaves you wanting more at the end of every single chapter. When a famous scientist is found murdered with a mysterious ancient symbol seared into his chest, Langdon is brought in to investigate. The book introduces the character of Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor who specialises in symbols and historical conspiracies (not his official job title but that’s essentially what he does). Angels & Demons is the book that thrust Dan Brown into the limelight as one of the most gripping authors of our generation. Before there was The Da Vinci Code, there was Angels & Demons by Dan Brown.

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