Review: Dan Brown Anyone?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2012
I received this book free to review form Amazon.I gave this book four stars and I think that may be too much.  I am a bit torn between giving this book 3 or 4 stars.  For the most part the story was ok, but it seemed like the action dragged on.  I cannot put my finger on what needs to be improved, maybe character development, maybe the book is just too long for what it has too offer, maybe it was just a little too unbelievable.Let's talk about character development.  The cast of stock character's in this novel were the equivalent of the Scooby Doo gang.  In fact, the only thing they were missing was the dog, but then again maybe the Monk was supposed to represent the dog.  The only character that was really developed was the Shaggy-like character and he wasn't even the main character.Temporally this novel has some hiccups as well.  About a third of the way through the novel the characters are put on the clock and have four days to complete their mission.  That four days seems to take four weeks.  I really do not believe that those characters could travel anywhere from Great Britain to France to Italy in four days let alone do it secretly and much of the travel using cars.  This reminds me of why I did not like the television show 24.  I just don't believe that the characters can complete everything they complete in the time allotted.I also got tired of the characters comparing their adventure to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.For all of my complaints, If you liked the Da Vinci Code you will probably like this book.