The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon #6)
By: Dan Brown
Recommendation: 🌕🌕🌕🌘- (Out of 5 🌕)
Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction
Length: 688 Pages
Pace: Slow
Moods: Adventurous, Challenging, Dark, Informative, Mysterious, Tense
Release Date: September 9, 2025
I always eagerly anticipate a Dan Brown release. The Secret of Secrets was pre-ordered well in advance. I greatly appreciate the amount of work and research that goes into each of Brown's books. He always builds amazingly wonderful, engrossing, fictional stories built around very real non-fiction topics. Because of all the work involved in developing these books, I am comfortable waiting patiently for each new installment. When this story released on September 8th I dropped everything else I was reading and immediately took up The Secret of Secrets. I am sad to say it was an extremely slow and tedious read. I found I was forcing myself to read a little each day just to get through to the end.
The back story revolves around noetic science, which is the study of human consciousness and a person's intuition, telepathy, precognitive abilities, energy healing, etc. A topic that I find incredibly interesting. I enjoyed learning more about the subject, including a failed project the United States secretly lead called Stargate. Unfortunately, some sections of the book got too technical and read like a operator's manual. This book could have benefited from some serious editing.
This does not deter me from reading future Dan Brown books. It is quite possible the depth of the topic was too great for me. As mentioned, I enjoyed the topic of noetics and found some of the twists in the story to be surprising and entertaining. As usual with all of Brown's books, I found myself doing my own research into may of the items mentioned just to learn more about what was factual and subject matter of the story as a whole. I am always amazed at how much I learn from Brown's stories.
Synopsis:
Robert Langdon once again finds himself embroiled in international chaos. It seems ironic that how easily trouble finds him. While visiting Prague with Katherine Solomon, an old friend and love interest, the couple find themselves fighting for their lives from many different agencies. Solomon, is in Prague giving a presentation about her field of study, noetic science while at the same time promoting her upcoming book. Unfortunately, someone is going to extreme measures to destroy her work and possibly her.
The city of Prague is ancient and Brown's story is built on the backdrop of old churches, castles, lore and history. As usual, Langdon's deep knowledge of history and iconic images are valuable to him as he navigates his way out of each of the troubles he encounters.
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