I'm with you. I equate it a little bit to Twilight in that I know what I am reading is not literary genius, but it is entertaining enough to keep me going. Only the Dan Brown stuff is maybe one or two ladder pegs above the SMeyer stuff in that there is no Cesarean section being performed by sparkly vampire teeth. Perhaps that will be in the next book, "Robert Langdon and the Adventures of Vampire Judas."