Dan Brown(다빈치 코드의 저자)
"Matthew Pearl is the new shining star of literary fiction -- a heady, inventive, and immensely gifted author."

Bookpage Magazine, February 2003
"Matthew Pearl's dazzler of a debut novel, The Dante Club, is just what an historical thriller should be."

Library Journal, December 15, 2002
"Absorbing and dramatic... Pearl has proven himself a master."

Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 2002
(starred review) "Ingenious... a devil of a time."
San Jose Mercury News, February 9, 2003
"There aren't many writers around who can remind you of both James Patterson and Umberto Eco."

David Lazarus, The San Francisco Chronicle, February 2, 2003
"A hell of a first novel... 'The Dante Club' delivers in spades."

Adrienne Miller, Esquire, March 2003
"Audacious and captivating."

Elle Magazine's Daily Essential, February 4, 2003
"Equal parts richly detailed history lesson (our 'hero' is Oliver Wendell Holmes) and riveting page-turner."

Janet Maslin, The New York Times, February 7, 2003
"Ingenious new literary mystery... working on a vast canvas, Pearl keeps this mystery sparkling with erudition...[a] captivating brain teaser."