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There’s a reason why you could ask most people if they’ve read The Da Vinci Code and they can easily answer “Yes”.

This book takes away your breath in the first scene. After only a couple pages, any doubt that I wouldn’t love this book INSTANTLY vanished. Whatever I thought this book was going to contain, was actually something much more.

Some advice before starting this book:

Don’t read reviews! Spoilers are everywhere!
Don’t start this on a weekday: you will lose sleep. And a lot of it.
Go in with an open mind.

I made the mistake of starting this during a busy week, and my total hours of sleep each night was probably under four.

Why?

Because this novel is fast-paced, suspenseful, and after racing through a chapter to find some sort of conclusion: you get a cliffhanger. Every single time.

If you haven’t heard of the book, I’ll provide a quick, little synopsis. It begins with Robert Langdon, who is woken up by police in his hotel room. It is the morning after a conference he was having in France and also the morning after someone he was meeting had never showed. The man he was supposed to meet was a curator from Louvre museum, and that man was pronounced dead that same morning.

Robert soon must go on a journey to find answers with the clues the curator left for him, and with limited time. He meets different people on is quest, and learns of things he could’ve never imagined and it was just so fascinating to learn alongside him.

What happens when you read this book is that you are constantly surprised because nothing is what it seems. As you go further and further into it, there are more questions that need answers and the plot becomes more complex. I want to be vague about everything because going in knowing very little can make the experience of reading this so much greater.

This book not only left me with a desire to read more from Dan Brown, but also to read books that inspired him to write the Da Vinci Code. It was a brilliant book which clearly took immense amounts of research to properly write. All the bits of historical, art, religious information were eye-opening and intriguing, which only enhanced my reading experience. This specific version also had wonderful photographs that really fully allowed me to see parts of this book.

Overall, an unforgettable book that is fun, entertaining, and a really great read for all!