I’ll say this much for Brown: his writing seems to have improved a bit since Angels & Demons, and the man does do his research. Langdon and Brooks flee to her nearby flat, where. Pretty soon another mysterious character-a spike-haired woman in black leather, somewhat resembling Lisbeth Salander, the “girl with the dragon tattoo”-appears and starts shooting up the hospital, killing one of the doctors. He appears to be mixed up in Langdon’s misadventure in some way, but it’s clear we won’t figure out how until we’ve read further in the book. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a shadowy character who runs a mysterious and powerful global organization from his headquarters on a massive converted yacht anchored somewhere in the Adriatic. A shadowy character running a global organization Sienna Brooks, his physician-a lovely young blonde woman, of course! Hollywood must be appeased-tells him he’s been shot in the head. He can’t remember a thing about the past three days, and he doesn’t have a clue why the back of his head is bandaged or how or why he got to Florence. Now, just in case you want to know what Inferno is about, listen up: Robert Langdon finds himself in a hospital bed in Florence with a raging headache and a case of short-term amnesia. That sometimes smacks of manipulation, which invariably makes me uncomfortable. Because, often enough, it’s possible to foresee the plotline based not on what an author writes as on what he doesn’t write. Although there were many surprises in store for me in the book’s final chapters, I’d already figured out some of the fast ones Brown was going to pull as he thundered toward the climax. Inferno (Robert Langdon #4) by Dan Brown ★★★☆☆

And I couldn’t wait to get to the end of The Da Vinci Code because the historical mystery was brilliant and the suspense was excruciating. Brown’s early novels- Digital Fortress and Deception Point-were fascinating to me. And I even found the suspense in the first couple of them to be compelling. OK, admittedly, I’ve read all those Dan Brown novels. And whatever else you might say about The Da Vinci Code and its successors in the Robert Langdon series, lots of people read them.įar be it from me to advance some psychosexual explanation for this surprising phenomenon. What can you say about a man who has sold more than 200 million copies of just six novels? Clearly, the guy has got something going for him.

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