A review by smrourke
Inferno by Dan Brown

2.0

It's worth reading if you loved Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, and tolerated The Lost Symbol. The problem with Inferno is that the signature Dan Brown plot twists are muddled, and too jarring. The start of the story is intriguing, and the end is satisfying. The middle is just a mess padded with overlong Wikipedia-style tangential history lessons, and so many clumsy twists with huge logical holes that the reader is distracted from the overall narrative for about 1/3 of the book. It's like: "Oh, you know those 150 pages you just read? Useless. Forget all of it. You could have just skipped to Chapter 57."