'ere, 'ang on
I've just realised I've answered the right thread about the wrong author !!!
But some of it more or less fits both, actually, for me anyway.
The above post is a reply "as if" we were talking about Wilbur Smith (another thread).
But, for Dan Brown, add "over-complicated" and possibly, although maybe a little cruelly, "trite", to the second para, and forget the first......
And I only
just got through the Da Vinci, nothing else available on a long train journey - no longer a problem, thanks to my embracing new technology !
My brain 'urts......time for cucumber slices and a darkened room..........