[C Elegans]

I thought the first 150 pages were decent, like I had expected - after that it went downhill quickly.

The mythology and part of the history is correct and documented - the idea that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife is not new, and that symbols and references to the female and to sexuality was supressed by the church early in the history of christianity, is nothing controversial really. (Maybe it is among some fundamentalist groups in the US? I am not sure, the ideas presented in the book are anyway not new although they are a mix of well documented facts and speculative interpretations.) The writer of the novel of course makes it sound like a big deal and like it was some hidden secret and big mystery and blahblah. If you are interested in the history of christian cults and early christian mythology, and still like a good thriller, I really recommend Umberto Eco's "The Pendulum". Not only is it written by a scholar who is very knowledgable, and who doesn't care how big profit he makes from his novels, it's also written by somebody who can actually write. Eco is no James Joyce, but he is a writer who knows his handicraft and he can tell an interesting story without falling back on cheap commercial tricks.