Anyone exposed to the hype surrounding Dan Brown’s best-known novel, The Da Vinci Code, approaches his Angels and Demons (Corgi Books, 2000, 620 pages) with high expectations. No doubt, too high.
Both books follow Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor with a knack for confronting danger and solving puzzles that stretch across centuries of sometimes scandalous Catholic Church history.
Angels and Demons pits Langdon, plus a sexy scientist named Vittoria Vetra and traumatized church leaders, against a mysterious foe with a penchant for murder as a powerful bomb looks certain to destroy the Vatican.
Ultimately, the style, the plot and the flavor of Angels and Demons resembles The Da Vinci Code so closely that some readers may feel overwhelmed by a sense of déjà vu.
For more information: www.danbrown.com.
Approval rating: 45 per cent.
(February 26, 2007)
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