Jenny Boot Boot itibaren Gadighat, West Bengal, Hindistan
This is the lesser known prequel of he DaVinci Code. And it's basically the same thing. I read all four Dan Brown books and they are each worse than the one before (regardless of what order you read them in), because they are all formulaicly the same. The only reason to read this is if you're a huge fan of Brown, a big Catholic Church fiction buff, or you have no other option. On the plus side, it's very elementary level reading, and can been completed in a couple of days.
I’m really rather grateful that I managed to, eventually, finish this book. This novel proved once more why I don’t really fancy pre-19th century texts. I had a hard time not to be put to sleep by this book because the language is in a way wooden and overly complicated (I know that is down to age, but still: I can’t enjoy that). Even the plot is lacking logic: It seems to be made up of several ideas that aren’t connected. To me, the story became absolutely ridiculous when Matilda and Theodore (after being freed) had a lengthy conversation about all sorts of unimportant stuff although she had urged him before to flee quickly because, otherwise, he might be discovered by Manfred. Matilda repeated that about four times, but Theodore simply went on asking stuff that was of no importance at all. I’m really looking forward to my next book.