The book tells you the story of
the royal bloodline of Jesus (Yes! You read it right!!) and advocates that it
is being protected by a secret society called the Priory of Scion, with no
intentions to release the secret to the world.
The Da Vinci Code which had
created a huge debate from around the world when it was released was again in
my hands after a decade of having read it once. Yet I felt as if I had never
read it before, that someone had illustrated its story long back which had become
hazy over all these years. May be it was because I was so naive in
understanding the story since I was unaware of everything regarding religion in
depth. I had only read it as a suspense thriller. When the descriptions and the
knowledge surrounding it in your brain do not fit, you can hardly understand
the concept.
I studied in a convent school and
all that I knew as an adolescent was that the church blamed women because of
the supposedly original sin of Eve by munching on the fruit of knowledge in
Eden Garden. During the discussions among the characters of novel, it will dawn
on you that the lore of sacred feminine is being sung everywhere through the
artwork of great people of the past. I did a little research on internet and
found supporting data for both sides of the debate. Hence, conclusions are
tough to be drawn.
Every page of this book is a
quest for the long lost secret. The reader finds himself drawn into the nerve
racing escapade of a symbologist Robert Langdon and a cryptologist Sophie
Neveu. You keep guessing the mastermind behind the plot threatening the very
existence of proof to sacred feminine and the book has managed to keep it to
itself till the last fifty pages. The plot is well spread across France and
England and the events within two days.
The reader will be left with more
thinking on the subject even after racing through the novel. The novel leaves
you with a hint that the best kept secrets in history are for the good of
mankind; revealing secrets is not the only way to make them obvious.
