Author Check: Dan Brown

Well…this post goes out for all book-lovers around the world…and all Dan Brown fans out there!

Taking time out from the everyday mundane routine…I finally succeeded in investing some time for one of my passions – Reading! Something, I don’t quite get time to indulge-in these days.

I completed Dan Brown’s Deception Point some time back. Having read The Da Vinci Code by the same author earlier, I must say my hopes from this book also ran high. I expected him to excel in much the same way with the narrative in this book as he did in The Da Vinci Code. But it was not to be.

The Da Vinci Code is a great read that brings forth the author’s expertise as a story-weaver…who knows how to blend-in the right mix of thrill, facts, drama, emotions, romance and mystery to make one hell-of-a-novel!

But coming to Deception Point… I must say that although it did provide a lot of the Dan Brown trademark elements, it lacked in something. I’m sure others who have read the two books will agree with me when I say that unlike The Da Vinci Code, Deception Point….is Missing something! It fails to satisfy you as a reader…leaving an unwanted void in your reading pleasure. The novel, no doubt has an engaging thrill and generates enough interest in the reader to keep reading. But as the novel progresses and reaches its climax, something, somewhere…just gives way. And the novel just misses its chance to be termed as ‘yet another Superb thriller by an exemplary author’.

One wonderful point though, common to both the novels, is that Dan Brown manages to successfully maintain a good pace in the novel. The events and incidents unfold at a quick pace, calling for the book-lover to read in rapt attention. Another striking feature of these books, like other Dan Brown classics is that the entire story is spanning just one single day! And it is during this 24-hour span that interesting episodes come to life, escalate and finally find their culmination.

Dan Brown as an author, makes even some unreal facts, seem ‘Believable’! Once you read his books, you start believing in the ‘Templar’ and the history of the ‘Holy Grail’. Or for that matter, existence of the extraterrestrial on Earth and the theory of ‘Panspermia’. That’s how real his narration gets!

All in all, Dan Brown remains one of my favourite authors and I hope that as I embark on reading my third Dan Brown novel, Angels and Demons, he goes on to present his readers with yet another spell-binding tale!