I really enjoyed the first novel I read by Dan Brown, that was Davici Code. So I decided to give him another shot. I grabbed a copy of Deception point. It was another really fast read that you just wanted to see what would happen next. The problem with this one was it didn’t seem to really make any sense the more you learned about the plot the more holes it had in it from the beginning. They had a huge scientific discovery and act like long as everyone believed it for the first week no scientists would ever return to the site and never verify anything. That is just not true. Then the main thing motivating you to read further is just descriptions of something amazing about to show up or be told to you and then chapters later it is still vaguely described and you don’t know what this important thing is. By the time you are finally told whatever it is your waiting to find out it is almost certainly a let down. Also, another very Dan Brown thing to do is have a series of coincidences each less probable than the last work out so that the story can continue. It is also really easy to predict the fate of most of the people in the book. First most characters are either perfectly good or perfectly bad. Then if any good character comes in and has some small task they help the “good team” with the will certainly die quickly after helping out. Also, it seems that it wouldn’t be a Dan Brown book with out a strong smart woman quickly falling for a man in about 24 hours because of his caring tenderness and brilliance. I guess at this point I just don’t feel there is a need to read any more of his books as you can come up with some extremely unlikely problem and then a never ending series of improbably happenings and then the two good guys fall in love at the end of the story. I felt I had to finish the book but by about halfway through I just couldn’t wait for it to end.
To sum it up I would say Dan Brown is a master at making you wait, and wait you will if you read his book just to see what happens even when you stop caring.
