Read for a “set in a landlocked country” challenge prompt, since this is primarily in Vatican City. I remember tearing through this and Da Vinci Code in like 2012, thinking they were SO cool. Sadly this didn’t hold up for me at all. I do blame the narrator for making things sound so cheesy and over dramatic, but I think the material itself is too. The immediate and ever present sexualization of basically the only female character left me rolling my eyes. Everything just felt way less believable than I remember it.