Professor Yaffle

"Deception Point", Dan Brown

"Men lie."
"Yeah, about sleeping with other women, but never about bioluminescent plankton."

Yes, it's another Dan Brown, this time sans Robert Langdon (although put Michael Tolland in Harris Tweed and Bob's your protagonist).

The main hero here though, is Rachel Sexton and the more of these I read, the more I'm noticing similarity of characters - Sohpie Neveu, Vittoria Vetra, Rachel Sexton - all very different women in the way they are initially described, but all end up acting, speaking, thinking in exactly the same way. Also, is it really necessary for so many characters to have distressing episodes in their past that inform the way they act in the present? Three of them in this one book alone, Dan, mate, people can do stuff without being nearly killed as a kid or having traumatically dead relatives.

Still, it's another rip-roaring adventure, no secret societies this time, instead we get NASA, the US government and mysterious meteorites. Oh and a large dollop of conspiracy and murder for good measure. And sharks. Good stuff.

posted by Izzy @ 11:00 am