#12: The Lost Symbol

On the way home from our Christmas trip to Wisconsin, we finished our audio book.  We started The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown on the way home and listened to a few hours of it.  Ever since then, we have been listening to a few chapters here and there during car rides.  We finally had almost finished and brought the last disc inside last night to finish.  The Lost Symbol is the 3rd book in the Robert Langdon series (we listened to them out of order).

In this book, Robert is called to Washington DC to lead a lecture with his friend Peter Solomon. When he arrives, he learns this was a set up and that Peter is in danger.  We follow the story of the Solomon family.  Peter is the Director of the Smithsonian and a Mason.  Katherine, Peter's sister, is an important Scientist.  We learn some background on their family, with lots of accomplishments and hardships.  We then learn that Robert has been helping Peter to hide a symbol for the Masons and start to learn lots of secrets about the Masonic Brotherhood.

I was very interested in the story at the beginning.  It seemed to have lots of action right away.  Towards the middle things got really exciting.  Our whole family was wanting to learn what happened.  Finally in chapter 120 or so we learned the huge twist.  I liked the story at this point, but then the audio CD seemed to drag on for another 1 1/2 after we learned the twist.  It really didn't seem to come to a conclusion.  It also just seemed like lots of rambling at the end.

While I still liked the book, I felt it was a little long and rambly in some spots.  This was the least favorite of the Robert Langdon series for me.