Angels and Demons by Dan Brown: A Book Review

chillibreeze writer — Rina Paun

One confession before I give my personal opinion on ‘Angels and Demons’ – I began reading the book with a preconceived notion that it would not live up to the fanfare created over Dan Brown’s style of writing after his much hyped The DaVinci Code. So there really wasn’t much I was expecting from this book save for a leisurely time on the sofa, curled up like a cat that had just decided to turn vegan.

The novel opens with a gruesome murder, details of which Brown unravels in the first few chapters. The sit-up-in-your-seat plot is a combination of a secret brotherhood that is long forgotten and thought to have been mercifully inactive, the Swiss CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the Vatican & Catholic Church, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, anti-matter particles, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour. The book’s main characters include a Harvard professor of religious iconology, a beautiful nuclear research scientist and physicist, a bitter and cold scientist in a wheelchair, and a brutal assassin. The story is full of twists and can keep you reading non-stop till the last page. In the last hundred or so pages Brown blows it open and leads us to a surprise (or was it obvious?) ending.

However, a word of caution – Do not muse over the factual accuracy of details presented in the novel. Full points to Brown for writing in such a way that every bit of historical information seems like a convincing fact. He deserves credit for his attempt at a seamless blend of real settings and fiction. The philosophising on the eternal conflict between religion and science was food for thought and at one point I caught myself questioning my ideas of God and Science! The underlying theme of the book- There is a constant need for man to believe in something higher than himself- might be as old as time itself. But the manner in which Brown emphasizes it is quite unique.

Some of the more cynical fiction readers may term Angels and Demons ‘candy floss’. Candy floss or not, the book is certainly full of flavour!

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