480 pages
English language
Published April 19, 2013
Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series, following Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. The book was published on May 14, 2013, ten years after publication of The Da Vinci Code (2003), by Doubleday. It was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction and Combined Print & E-book fiction for the first eleven weeks of its release, and also remained on the list of E-book fiction for the first seventeen weeks of its release. A film adaptation was released in the United States on October 28, 2016.
Content warning The Plot
If I had a nickel for every time I consumed media about a virus which makes part of the human population sterile to save the world, I'd have two nickels. Watch the show Utopia. It's on Amazon Prime. Don't watch the third season because it's a bad reboot.
I listened to the audiobook. It was pretty good, considering I was listening to it and not reading it. Langdon gets on my nerves with every single book, though. Not liking how repetitive some scenes seems with other books in this series. However, I really like the topic of this one. I was immediately reminded of the Mass Effect franchise.
Inferno mostly reads like a tour guide through Italy and Turkey. So much of the book was about particular historical or geographical fact that eventually the story became extremely thin. While it may have been very well researched in fact the fact wasn't very well integrated into the plot beyond "Robert Langdon is here now where blah blah blah happened years ago or here's some information about the nearest landmark."
Definite improvement from his previous work.
The historicity and thrilling nature of the book makes this a fun read. Probably less believable than his others, especially in the denouement, but it has some surprising twists and turns that compensate. Fans of his work will enjoy this.
