Angels and Demons

Just finished reading Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. It is one of those rip roaring reads that works really well if you are on a holiday and need a quick read. Brown defines the page turner genre. He constructs his chapters in no more than two pages at a time and each chapter ends on a cliff hanger. As he often has three story lines on the go you are left straned for a couple of chapters and find yourself reading ahead to find out what happens. This technique can at times make you feel like you are being treated with kid gloves. What Brown does well is to research his story so in this you learn a lot about the vatican and religious practice which is a fascinating insight (in the Da Vinci Code it is art history). There are definitely some historical eye openers to be had in A&D BUT my overall feeling having finished the book is that this was another overly fantastical tale that will not work very well on the screen. Much how Da Vinci Code failed that leap. 6/10