Sophie Neveu's The Da Vinci Code

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The Da Vinci Code is a murder-mystery story set in Paris, France and is about the mysterious murder of a museum curator and member of a secret society. The main characters are Robert Langdon, an american professor and Sophie Neveu, a french cryptologist and the granddaughter of the curator. While investigating the murder they get pulled into the word of secrets, lies, and power. Leading to a revelation about Jesus and the Holy Grail.
The book deals with a lot of hidden messages in world-famous pieces of art, like messages hidden in the Mona Lisa and a groundbreaking clue in the Last Supper painting. Each of these are seen everyday by millions of people but are never really looked at. After I even googled the paintings to compare it to the
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I also can connect with the family aspect of Sophie, after catching her grandfather during a secret ceremony her relationship with him is very much strained, but she still loves her very much. She still trusts her grandfather enough that she helped Robert Langdon, a complete stranger, just on the message that her grandfather left her. All climaxing to the fact that Sophie is actually a direct descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Robert Langdon is the main protagonist and one of the heros in the book. He is very intelligent and is very experienced with religious and mythic symbolism. He has also been studying the Holy Grail for a long time. This makes him fight very hard to discover the truth. He is my second favorite character and I consider him the ½ of the hero team, since Sophie and him are both equally essential to the plot. The pace of the book in slow in the beginning, establishing the setting and the characters that we follow. But it picks up and keeps you glued to the pages with the mystery and murders. It had sad moments, happy moments, and funny moments each fitting the situation …show more content…
It shows the church in a villainess position, willing to murder people in order to keep a big secret. The church would lose power if people where to find out that Jesus and actually not he son of God but just a normal man who actually married Mary Magdalene and had children. If the people where to find out that real descendants of Jesus existed they would have no reason to listen to the church. This causes the Vatican to try to kill Robert and Sophie to make sure that the Holy Grail would never be found.
I read this book in one sitting and had a good reason to do so. When I read the first chapter I could not put the book down and spent the rest of the day binge reading it. I just had to know how it ended and what happens to the characters. The constant twists and turns kept me on the edge and had me thinking what would happen next chapter. It was like a movie, the flow very easy to understand and contemplate. All and all the book is one of my repeat reads and favorites. If you are a fan of the mystery genre this is definitely a book that you should

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