5.19k reviews for:

Illuminati

Dan Brown

3.75 AVERAGE

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

24299's review

4.0
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

this book was written wonderfully by brown. all the suspense really makes my heart tachycardic. good job brown!
adventurous informative tense fast-paced

these are honestly bad books but i am so entertained by them - i love that it’s history adjacent while also being so casual with historical accuracy - like, surface level research about the catholic church went into this 
so easy to read they almost read themselves, but the price you pay is occasionally corny and contrived language 
adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
reflective

Taking away the .25 stars for the trope romance bits that added nothing to the story 

Short chapters, gripping story, easy to get through. Reads like a movie with the constant POV switches, and Robert Langdon is a likeable main character.

This book (an the rest of the series) is very obviously written by a man (iykyk) and an American at that, but I can at least appreciate the occasional self-criticism.

I loved all the new etimology, art and history knowledge, and the different perspectives on religion.

My biggest criticism is that I wish he had left more prior clues/hints for the puzzles/riddles, because most are like "Ah ha! Of course! how could I have missed it! The answer is obviously [something that most of the readers have probably never heard of before, and wasn't mentioned at all in the book previously]!"