Deception Point

Deception Point
By Dan Brown

Wow. I didn’t see the twists coming in this one! After the slightly clichéd Da Vinci Code, this was a real treat! Oh, there were some things that weren’t a shock, just as in every book. But for the most part, I was as surprised as the characters were. I genuinely liked the main characters, neither annoyed me which is good! And I loved to hate the senator/father, he was a great character! Although he was a little too over-the-top, you knew you were supposed to dislike him. It’s like on an episode of The West Wing, a couple in a bar are complaining to a pregnant Andy that maybe she should have disclosed her condition before she was elected, since it may affect her ability to do her job. Just in case you may think they have a point, Charlie shows up and asks what’s the matter. (He is black or whatever the acceptable term is this week, and he dated the Presidents daughter, which annoyed stupid people who can’t see past skin color). The couple points at him and sneer “Oh, and there’s the one that dated the daughter.” You know, so the audience knows that these people are scum and anything they say is wrong. That’s how I felt with some of the ridiculous things coming out of the senator’s mouth in this book- too blatantly obvious that we were supposed to hate him, too heavy-handed. But since I otherwise adored the book.

8/10