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#BorgonReviews - Books - "Inferno" by Dan Brown
This week I'm going to be reviewing Dan Brown's latest installment in the Robert Langdon book: Inferno.
Professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a strange hospital room to find out he has no recollection of the previous days, and, more importantly, he is no longer in the United States. He is whisked away on yet another adventure in which he must race against time and other people to uncover the secrets of the days behind and stop a possible threat that could change the way the world works forever.
Dan Brown is the author of the Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and the Lost Symbol among others, not to mention my favorite author. His latest work does not disappoint in comparison to his other novels. There are a lot of things that Inferno does well, and a few that it doesn't. First let's take a look at the negatives.
One recurring aspect in Brown's work is an informative description of many aspects that are relevant to the story. As nicely informative and insightful into the main character's mind this is, it does become tiresome by the end of the book. At points it feels like he's gone overboard with the information and you just want to get back to the story. However, it isn't anything too bad. The other small problem I had was that it tends to be repetitive. Not because of the fact that it's the same format as the other books (professor goes help, things go wrong, partners up with an exotic foreign women to solve it) since that format works rather well, but because of the inner workings of some scenes. Without giving anything away, by the time they describe the same video for a third time you are tempted to skip ahead but don't in case you miss anything, but you never do.
Anyways, for the good. The plot is well developed and full of surprises up until the very end. The characters are delved into in a lot of detail explaining the history behind them which gives you a better sense of realism in the story. And it is just a good adventure/thriller story you should enjoy, but specially great for mystery fans. Also, if you didn't make the connection from the title, the book's plot is entirely in relation to Dante's "Divine Comedy." If you're a fan of that you should also enjoy this book as well.
Overall Opinion
Inferno is a great mystery book that will please the "young adults" and "adults." Despite some minor setbacks it does live up to its predecessors (in my opinion) and you should definitely pick it up when you have the chance (although I might be bias to loving these stories in general)
My final rating is 8.5 BorgBalls out of 10.
You can compare my rating to Amazon's 3.9 out of 5 stars. Barnes and Noble's rating is also 3.9 out of 5 stars, and GoodReads gave it a 3.7 out of 5.
Hope you liked my review, be sure to rate it and tell me what you thought of the book!
#SaysJ
Professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a strange hospital room to find out he has no recollection of the previous days, and, more importantly, he is no longer in the United States. He is whisked away on yet another adventure in which he must race against time and other people to uncover the secrets of the days behind and stop a possible threat that could change the way the world works forever.
Dan Brown is the author of the Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and the Lost Symbol among others, not to mention my favorite author. His latest work does not disappoint in comparison to his other novels. There are a lot of things that Inferno does well, and a few that it doesn't. First let's take a look at the negatives.
One recurring aspect in Brown's work is an informative description of many aspects that are relevant to the story. As nicely informative and insightful into the main character's mind this is, it does become tiresome by the end of the book. At points it feels like he's gone overboard with the information and you just want to get back to the story. However, it isn't anything too bad. The other small problem I had was that it tends to be repetitive. Not because of the fact that it's the same format as the other books (professor goes help, things go wrong, partners up with an exotic foreign women to solve it) since that format works rather well, but because of the inner workings of some scenes. Without giving anything away, by the time they describe the same video for a third time you are tempted to skip ahead but don't in case you miss anything, but you never do.
Anyways, for the good. The plot is well developed and full of surprises up until the very end. The characters are delved into in a lot of detail explaining the history behind them which gives you a better sense of realism in the story. And it is just a good adventure/thriller story you should enjoy, but specially great for mystery fans. Also, if you didn't make the connection from the title, the book's plot is entirely in relation to Dante's "Divine Comedy." If you're a fan of that you should also enjoy this book as well.
Overall Opinion
Inferno is a great mystery book that will please the "young adults" and "adults." Despite some minor setbacks it does live up to its predecessors (in my opinion) and you should definitely pick it up when you have the chance (although I might be bias to loving these stories in general)
My final rating is 8.5 BorgBalls out of 10.
You can compare my rating to Amazon's 3.9 out of 5 stars. Barnes and Noble's rating is also 3.9 out of 5 stars, and GoodReads gave it a 3.7 out of 5.
Hope you liked my review, be sure to rate it and tell me what you thought of the book!
#SaysJ