Title: Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
Author: Brown, Dan
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages: 480
Date Read: 01 January 2022
Bookshelves: read
My Rating (out of 5): ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
When this book was released in 2017, I had to stop myself from getting a copy. I did this for one very important reason–which should not come as strange to any Dan Brown fan. I was tired of Dan Brown ’s patterns that had been consistent since the very first book in his Robert Langdon series. I wanted to wean myself off what was becoming a lazy template and that’s exactly what I did.
For three years.
A weaned man, I picked up this book a couple of days ago. And as I tried to get reintroduced to Brown’s brilliant style, I could not help but be thankful for the discipline that kept me away from this book for as long as I did.
In this book, the author begins with care, developing the characters one short chapter at a time. And for the first time in his books I have read, Dan Brown waited for longer before introducing the female protagonist, which almost made me think he had finally broken out of his tired patterns. While this was not the case, I believe the author’s delay was indeed deliberate.
To merely say I enjoyed this book is an insult to the intelligence from which this book was borne. This book was excellent in ways I am still trying to comprehend. Beyond the fact that Dan Brown is an excellent writer, he puts so much effort into description and history of the structures that I literally had to take trips to Google to view images of his descriptions. But by far the best thing about this book was the topic it addressed and the manner in which it did.
This is a book everybody should read. And this, without a doubt, is my favourite work of Dan Brown.
A solid 5 stars. Would be an injustice not to recommend.