Angels and Demons- Completed Reading

SPOILERS INCLUDED: WILL HAVE *** AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF SPOILER.

I finished Angels and Demons last night, the ending was great and very surprising. The books plot was very interesting while reading, it did not seem like there was one climax in the book. There were multiple problems and each one seemed like it could be the climax but while reading I could not tell, each one had the potential to be the climax. When one problem ended, there was another problem that occurred. I believe since this story takes the form of a quest, all of these problems are part of the rising action and when ***The Camerlengo finds the antimatter, that is where the final problem that last the whole book finally ends. *** After this everything started to unravel such as when everyone finds out who is behind the whole problem. One of the other interesting things with the plot is that the problem is first revealed before you learn anything about the characters. The book begins with a prologue, with the first sentence being, “Physicist Leonarda Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own.” I felt this was very effective because it pulls the reader into the book. With some books, I find that the exposition can make the book very boring and undesirable to read because it is lasting too long and there is nothing to look forward to while reading. With this method, I instantly wanted to find out what had happened to him and knew that after the characters were introduced, there would be something interesting to keep me reading, there was. This book was very good and now I am looking forward to watching the movie and seeing if it is similar to how I pictured it and also if anything had been changed from the book to movie.