Firstly, I ask myself this question, was the book interesting enough considering its length ? The answer is NO. Not quite enough. 

 

Professor Robert Langdon gets a call in the middle of the night from CERN(European Organisation for Nuclear Research) asking him to come over as there is a crisis. A scientist has been murdered and a symbol has been branded on his chest. Robert Langdon gets there in a science-fiction created plane. The brand on the deceased scientist chest is ‘Illuminati’. Professor Langdon who specialises in religous symbology, is baffled as the illuminati is supposed to be defunct since last 150 years! 

 Dan Brown succeeds in getting us glued to the story, which is pretty interesting to read. But there are a lot of twists in it, and the last few are more cinematic than realistic to convince those who cannot keep logic away. 

Robert Langdon is a fantastic character and so is the Carmalengo but the rest were pretty ordinary. The assassin or ‘Hassassin’ in this book is not fascinating as you are not convinced till the end how he was found and convinced to do such a dangerous job. 

In some parts the book becomes a real page-turner but then there being lots of unanswered questions about the motivations of certain characters and defying of (forget science), plain logic make this book an average thriller at best despite the fascinating Vatican City history, architecture of the churches and illuminati symbolism.