This is a good read, alas though, not a great read! The somewhat surprise ending was anti-climactic. The story was interesting, but not a page turner. This isn’t the book that you have to read one more chapter before putting down for the night.

I finish books, it’s how I read. Unfortunately, that’s the only reason I kept going in this story. ( )

While this does have lots of action and plenty of bad guys including Lucifer the ultimate bad guy this never really grabbed me. At no point do you believe that the bad guys will win, you never think that they will succeed in their attempts to kill the lead character. Even Lucifer is not convincing as the ultimate in bad guys to me he felt more like a pantomime baddie. ( )

Some aspects of this book were like Dan Brown but he took too long to get to the meaning and use of the code. It also seemed to promote his first book a little too much in the story line. ( )

I have mixed feelings on this book. I like the action and history in it, but I felt that the storyline was a little far fetched and I am becoming not too fond of the main character. I like that he is really smart but he is so full of himself and sleeps with every woman he comes in contact with, it becomes a little annoying at times. There is also a part at the end of the book where they are searching for other pieces of the puzzle that the author completely skips over. They find the first piece and then the author cuts to after they found all the rest of the pieces. I felt as if I was cheated out of the adventure. It's a fast read, but I thought his first book Atlantis code was better. I hope he is not falling onto the same road as Dan Brown where his books get worse and worse. ( )

The book is a very easy read in a kind of "Indianna Jones meets the Davinci Code" kind of way. However, an easy read doesn't mean it is a well written piece. I found myself getting wound up by redundancies in the text that should have been picked up by the editor, much less never written in the first place, for example, "dead corpse."

The other problem with the book was that it couldn't decide what genre and/or approach it was going to take. Was it to be an action/adventure novel... a mystery...? Or, with the 'twist' at the end, a little 'fantasy/horror' thrown in for good measure.

If you can see past that, and want to read a tale where everything happens, one thing after another, (you could argue that this gives the novel pace), then you'll probably enjoy this book. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy it, just that I could see there was a lot wrong with it, from a writer's point of view. ( )