The issue with all of Brown's works are two types of pivotal moments. First are those in which an already occurred, and surely controllable event, would have to break for the villain's plans to come to fruition. Second, are those in which you can feel the story departing from the necessity of art/architecture/history to make leaps which hold the foundation of the plot together. I should state that there is absolutely zero wrong with this, as his works are fiction and, to my thinking, both fun and informative. However, you begin to see where these gaps occur when you've read a few of Brown's works.
The book is a nice homage to certain aspects of Rome, and it is a far cry from Ron Howard's movie, which is real bad. Reading this did make me excited for Brown's latest offering.
