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Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno. Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this sumptuously entertaining thriller.
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Enjoyed this Langdon adventure well enough. Made me think about certain inevitabilities which wasn't really what I was looking for, but I liked the art and Dante stuff!
Misc thoughts:
- didn't like Sienna from the start!
- this whole book is supposed to take place over like 36 hours, which is just a bit ridiculous.
- while I didn't see the surprise coming ("oh, the people who you've been thinking are the bad guys are actually the good guys all along because actually they were working for THIS person!"), I didn't think that it was very well executed, as I was a bit confused and decided to just along with it anyway
- I understand that Dante's works really featured in the solving and understanding of all the clues, I was a little disappointed that it was still all put together by the bad guy. In the Da Vinci Code, it turned out that the clues were really in Da Vinci's works and that he was in on the secret, which made it feel like Langdon was discovering stuff that was already in place for hundreds of years. In Inferno it was just the bad guy's plotting and obsession with Dante. Still interesting, just one level removed.
- Also, Sienna was supposed to be this genius character and I felt like at every turn she was just the hot girl running around with Langdon asking the "What does that mean?" *blinks innocently and coquette-ishly* annoying questions, not solving anything before Langdon or being helpful. She had potential that was not realized/developed.
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