A review by capincus
Inferno by Dan Brown

1.0

Ridiculously pretentious. In the previous Robert Langdon books (and to a lesser extent in Dan Brown's other works) the amount of researched facts came across in an interesting way. For the most part they were tied intricately into the plot and created interesting, if made up, historical and contextual puzzles. However, in this latest installment Browns number of research assistants has apparently outpaced his actual ability to write. Instead of interesting facts that make a thrilling plot more interesting we get a perhaps decent plot buried under page after page of completely irrelevant factoids. As Brown walks us through Venice he describes the architecture and history of every mildly important structure even if it has absolutely no place in the plot. I bought this book to read a thriller not a tour guide. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND, even if you are a huge Dan Brown fan (as I was even after The Lost Symbol, but certainly not now).