Clayton Misener
Creative Writing
Book review
Draft 1
The Da Vinci Code: Review
From action to mystery, Dan Brown has put it all in The Da
Vinci Code.
death.
The book all starts with the mystery of someone’s
It leads you through the book with clues and puzzles.
There is an answer to be found at the end of the mystery.
This
book was a bestseller in 2006, and had sold 60.5 million copies
by May.
One of the main characters is Jacques Sauniere.
Grand Master of Prior of Sion.
He is the
This means he knows where to
find the keystone that leads to the Holy Grail.
The Holy Grail
could change everything ever known about Christianity and it’s
Church.
Next is Sophie Nueve, granddaughter of Sauniere.
She
separated herself from him once she found him practicing a pagan
sex ritual.
The plot first starts when Jacques Saunière is found dead
on the floor of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
death though.
It isn’t a normal
Sauniere is posed like the man in Leonardo Da
Vinci’s drawing “Vitruvian Man”.
There are messages all around
him, and drawings with blood on his stomach.
The characters of the story attempt to decipher what
Sauniere has left behind.
They find out it leads to possible
location of the Holy Grail, the secret society of the Prior of
Sion, and the Knights Templar.
This book is like a giant maze.
First they have to solve
some anagrams which eventually lead to a key.
With the key,
they get more clues, and with more clues, they get more puzzles.
They solve a cryptex which leads to another one.
Eventually,
they are lead to the secret.
Throughout the book, there are other people trying to get
the keystone to.
This adds thrill and action.
Overall, this book was amazing.
and I never wanted to put it down.
winner with this one.
It was very action packed,
Dan Brown really created a