Book Review: Inferno

Book: Inferno (Robert Langdon book #4) by Dan Brown

Rating: 1 star

Review:

Inferno was not one of Dan Brown's best books, the writing was repetitive and the plot was barely there.

The story follows Professor Robert Landon who woke up in a Italian hospital suffering from amnesia. He was trying to piece together clues in hopes of stopping a plague that was created by scientist Bertrand Zobrist.

Landon was being helped by Doctor Sienna Brooks but every step of the way the duo was constantly being pursued by a military group. As the story progressed, it turns out that everything was not as it seemed.

The story spent so much time detailing art and architecture that it felt like I was reading an art history book. The details ended up becoming more of a focus than the story. This should have been a Did Not Finish but I continued reading just to see how it would end. Sadly, it ended just as lackluster as it started. The story centers around overpopulation, Dante's Inferno and a plague but there was no real sense of urgency to this.

There was hardly anything good about this book, the writing was bad and the characters weren't developed. The Robert Landon in this book was a pale comparison to the one written in the other books in the series. This Landon had no personality and was nothing more than a walking history book/tour guide.

The last three books in the series were fun to read but this one was simply torturous.