Tuesday, December 30, 2014

#47: Inferno

We recently listened to the audio book of Inferno by Dan Brown during our car rides at Thanksgiving and Christmas.  This is book 4 in the Robert Langdon series.  It doesn't not really have any connection to Angels and Demons or the DaVinci Code, except that Langdon is the main character.  I don't think his previous adventures were even mentioned in the book.

The book starts out with a Prolouge of someone talking about being the Shade and then jumping from a building to his death.  Then in Chapter 1, we learn that Robert is in Florence in a hospital bed, but has lost his memory of the past 24 hours.  Two doctors come in to look at him and tell him that he has a gunshot wound in his head.  They then realize that someone is still trying to kill him and one of the doctors, Sienna Brooks, helps him to escape and goes on a wild ride with him through, Florence, Venice, etc.  Brooks remains at Langdon's side as they try to find the answers through clues in Dante's Inferno....

I enjoyed listening to this audio book.  It started off with lots of excitement and art history details.  It's always fun to guess the twist in a Dan Brown book.  My only complaint is that the end of the story was kind of anticlimatic.  I was waiting for some huge excitement in the last chapter, but it remained pretty steady.

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