I’m one of millions who enjoyed all the Dan Brown books.

The Secret of Secrets (2025) is his latest.

If you liked the rest, you’ll probably like this one.

I do enjoy the many little scientific nuggets included.

But Brown is an infamously terrible writer:

At this stage, everything that needs to be said about Brown’s sentence-by-sentence ineptitude as a prose writer has been said.

Fear not: he’s still hopeless. It may be counted as a metafictional joke that in a novel where a favoured adjective like “elegant” can appear in two consecutive sentences, where bells are said to “blare” …

This is, in other words, a Dan Brown novel. It’s weapons-grade bollocks from beginning to end, none of it makes a lick of sense, and you’ll roar through it with entire enjoyment if you like this sort of thing. …

Guardian review

The Secret of Secrets (2025) by American author Dan Brown is the 6th instalment in the Robert Langdon series.

The Associated Press review described the novel as a 650-page thriller featuring Langdon on a dangerous quest through Prague, where he is caught up in an international race to unlock the mystery of what happens after death.

Brown once again blends suspense, philosophical themes, travelogues, codes, puzzles, and secret societies …

Too long. Tom Hanks must be exhausted.

Killers stop to join in long, philosophical discussions.

No doubt the movie will be better than the book.