Robert Langdon Book #5
“Where do we come from? Where are we going?
Traveling to Spain at the request of Edmond Kirsh, Dr. Langdon finds himself once again wrapped up in a global-scale event that could have huge ramification on the world’s religions. At the Bilbao Museum he meets with futurist Edmund Kirsh (a friend) who plans to release a message that will change the face of science. But the event goes tragically wrong leaving Langdon to track down his friend’s discovery and unveil it to the world…..
“Where do we come from? Where are we going?
This story has extensive research on art, architecture and history plus gives us plenty of puzzles, clues, religious symbolisms and technological lingo. To entertain us Langdon even gets assistance from an AI that outdid Siri and Alexa by miles (km).
The format, style and tone are similar to Mr. Browns other books so if you liked him before you still will, otherwise you know what to do. I read all of his book and I will keep doing so when a new one comes out.
A bit frustrating, the author makes us wait the entire book for the “reveal” toying with us with the world religions’ extinction and the “forces” trying to suppress the message from coming out. “Origin” is a huge race against time to save the world from impending doom.
Although, it has an interesting premise it is really slow moving and being a huge book near 550 pages one has to generate excitement to the reader in order for him to stay tuned and interested to the end. Yes, we do have action, murders, conspiracy and suspense but the length and pacing doesn’t allow to stay riveted to every word and I was happy to flip the last page. Having say this…I still enjoy this conspiracy theory and Dan Brown is a master imagining this type of stories (prophecies).
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