“And not very good fiction at that. The first book was more readable”
I found it very readable and enormously entertaining. BTW it is the first book.
I thought DaVinci Code was first.
I was just about to say - this is the PREQUEL to the “Da Vinci Code.” And it is completely formulaic to Da Vinci. In fact, Brown’s books are so formulaic, that there’s an entertaining website called “write your own Dan Brown novel.”