Integrity, I was the wall against which my husband chucked it, but not with vengeance, I was rather something like the wall of the Temple in Jerusalem, for him, I think... I didn't read the book but I heard all about it thanks to my husband...
Even Dan Brown's first sentence was rubbish... If you can't even do that right, what's there to read further???
It is indeed a page turner, according to my husband at least and probably it has something to do with what you say: a cliffhanger at each end of a chapter... It's like the Bold and the Beautiful, then... A cliffhanger and the next day a total anticlimax... Indeed, you feel so dirty and still you get hooked on it...