My Take On: Inferno by Dan Brown

From The DaVinci Code to Angels and Demons,  Dan Brown has captured his audience with a very distinct, though sometimes repetitive, style of writing.

His leading man, Robert Langdon, is a witty, handsome scholar who gets himself into the most unbelievable adventures.

But we know this, we've read the previous books, we know that Langdon will be mid-speech or class as he is whisked away to solve a crime or problem that, in reality, is far out of his league. We also know that he will meet an intriguing woman who will find herself inexplicably falling for him. It's like James Bond, minus the sex.

Also, we know that Dan Brown is a GENIUS researcher. Though he writes fiction, he injects factoids and real places and true history into his writing, it's what draws us in and makes us WANT to believe.

I picked up Inferno as a light refreshment between heavy reads. It turned out to be a moral and emotional heavyweight.

It isn't often you find a book that forces you to question your own morals and values, a story that doesn't clearly show who/what the good or the bad is. Inferno makes you reset your moral compass and question whether the evil you think is so obvious, so evident, isn't. A good twist in a book is always appreciated, but when you put the book down and walk away from it, and it stays with you, and you continue to think about it? That's a rare treat and Inferno proved to be just that.