The Da Vinci Code   by Dan Brown Doubleday, 2003, 454 pages, ISBN 0385504209

How easy was it to get stuck into this book?
That depends. It started with a murder, quick, simple, and interesting. A book has to catch me on the first or second page or I throw it out: the Da Vinci Code quickly caught my attention. However, the plot was slow at times, but the end of the chapter cliff hangers helped me continue!

Who are the main characters?
Robert Langdon was the focus of the story, a character who gets caught up in all the mayhem when he writes about a secret society called the Priory of Sion and in the mess finds a cryptologer named Sophie, acquires help from a specialist in the chalice affairs, unfortunately crosses the path of a group called Opus Dei, and much more.

What's the storyline?
First off, according to the author, not the story, but the facts on which it is based are entirely true. The Da Vinci Code is centered around the secrets the supposed group Priory of Sion kept: where the chalice was located. [Chalice is what Christians believe to be the cup that holds Jesus' blood]. However, the story centers around the balance of males and females: and how the chalice isn't what most people believe it to be.

How's it written?
This book is not religious, as in it is trying to convert you about a religion, but rather to debate the other side of something a religion believes in. It is told in a fictional form, making it interesting to read. Definitely a great book to argue about, the Ad Vinci Code is best read by those in high school.

Other books by the same author that Malka Beast knows about?
Demons and Dragons, the prequel to the Da Vinci Code.

The overall verdict is
A cool-read

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