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A review by bandherbooks
Inferno by Dan Brown
2.0
**Some Spoilers ahead**
I really enjoyed Dan Brown's Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, but was not thrilled with The Lost Symbol. Inferno continues my disappointment. While it had an interesting mystery revolving around a madman's fixation on Dante's Inferno and the oncoming world over-population crisis that made me finish reading the darn thing, I was sad Brown's signature puzzles and riddles were mostly missing from this very long tome. Instead the majority of the book was spent on explaining various literary, historic, and architectural references to the reader punctuated by short spurts of the protaganists running around different European cities and always luckily running into different people who could help them on their path to discovering where the maleavolent hidden object they sought was.
Kudos to Brown for throwing in some very good twists to the plot, this book definitely did not end as I imagined and as stated before, he did keep me wanting to know how the mystery would wrap up on the end. I'm interested to see if he will continue with a sequel because the (spoiler alert) virus was actually released into the world. Not expecting that!
I will need to go back and check, but I'm fairly certain at three different mortal sins were described as the "worst" and at the "lowest level" in Dante's Inferno. I hope I'm wrong.
The female lead, Sienna, was also a throw away for me. Of course she is utterly gorgeous, young, and attracted to Robert Langdon (twice her age), and is a brilliant person with an IQ off the charts. Except for Lost Symbol, this has been the case. Let's give Robert a more intersting foil next time please.
I really enjoyed Dan Brown's Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, but was not thrilled with The Lost Symbol. Inferno continues my disappointment. While it had an interesting mystery revolving around a madman's fixation on Dante's Inferno and the oncoming world over-population crisis that made me finish reading the darn thing, I was sad Brown's signature puzzles and riddles were mostly missing from this very long tome. Instead the majority of the book was spent on explaining various literary, historic, and architectural references to the reader punctuated by short spurts of the protaganists running around different European cities and always luckily running into different people who could help them on their path to discovering where the maleavolent hidden object they sought was.
Kudos to Brown for throwing in some very good twists to the plot, this book definitely did not end as I imagined and as stated before, he did keep me wanting to know how the mystery would wrap up on the end. I'm interested to see if he will continue with a sequel because the (spoiler alert) virus was actually released into the world. Not expecting that!
I will need to go back and check, but I'm fairly certain at three different mortal sins were described as the "worst" and at the "lowest level" in Dante's Inferno. I hope I'm wrong.
The female lead, Sienna, was also a throw away for me. Of course she is utterly gorgeous, young, and attracted to Robert Langdon (twice her age), and is a brilliant person with an IQ off the charts. Except for Lost Symbol, this has been the case. Let's give Robert a more intersting foil next time please.