Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Inferno by Dan Brown

2 reviews

sam_gartley91's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Loved rereading this via audio! Good pace and pulling in the art history and current topics of world health even if pushed to some extremes some times. The variety of characters and perspectives kept you guessing what would happen next. Forgot how this book ended and it was exciting to read again. Interesting discussions of plagues and pandemics now after 2020. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Suicide, Sexual assault, Stalking, Violence, Medical trauma, Confinement, and Rape

jodar's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

4.5/5 stars in the superficial-but-fun scale.

A fast-moving thriller which felt like a cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond. It’s well written and all the characters are well drawn and relatable. The MC/narrator is reliable, but much else is not what it seems.

Quibbles: a misuse of ‘enormity’ in Chapter 88 (‘enormousness’ not ‘exceedingly horrible’ is clearly meant), and given the scientific context, the misuse of ‘quantum leap’ in Chapter 102 with the sense of a huge leap (rather than the smallest possible leap) is rather odd.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, Confinement, Death, and Suicide