Angels & Demons

I think I enjoyed this more than [b:The Da Vinci Code 269831 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517GH6476YL.SL75.jpg 2982101]. As with the Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully wove a tale of fiction regarding the Catholic Church and an ancient secret order, intertwining the fiction with bits and pieces of facts. I liked this one more because I found it had much better suspense. The starting hundred or so pages were a bit slow, but the pace picked up from there and went all the way to the end. There were also a stronger element of violence and sexual imagery in this book compared to the Da Vinci Code, but they were opportunely used to convey the proper reaction from the reader or to better depict a character. I read the book after the movie so I had the luxury of seeing what the movie altered from the book but it did cause me to lose out on the ending (a bit, not much, given how much the movie altered it). On the whole, a very entertaining read.