Origin
By Dan Brown
~Pravesh Jain
The book is the latest addition to the famous Robert Langdon series. The character is already most famous amongst all of the protagonists that Dan Brown introduced through his novels. This book is different from all the other editions as every book that was introduced till now focused on history, this book focuses on future. Langdon is back and this time he travels through Spain in search of an answer and this time accompanied by a new character, charming young lady, Ambra Vidal, fiance of Prince of Spain. The book also introduced us to a new fascinating character, Edmond Kirsch who is a mixture of Iron Man’s Tony Stark and Elon Musk, his traits being that of both. If you are already acquainted with Brown’s older work, you may feel some similarities and attempts to blend the book in same writing pattern. The charm that Langdon created in all the other works is still present in this book including his characteristic traits such as the Mickey mouse watch, Claustrophobia, Harvard swimming lessons, etc.
Brown is famous for his thrilling writing and the cliffhangers at the end of each chapter. Each chapter surprises the reader and left the reader begging for more. Sadly, this latest addition fails to excite the same emotion. The roller coaster ride that he offered in his books is also missing. Even though there was an attempt to instill the same feeling, the readers may get distracted as the story is not encouraging enough. In this book, he used rather too much technological advancement that is really hard to believe.
The book also goes on to use several scientific methods to speculate the possible outcomes in future. The best thing about Brown’s works is that they are thoroughly researched and all the facts are well accounted for. The story present fact in such a way that the presented fiction may as well be real and no one will bat an eye. Everyone will simply accept it as it is as the stories are realistic. Brown’s writing helps the reader to imagine every scene to even smallest of detail as he never misses one.The details in novels are a real source of fantasy because once you start reading you start imagining each structure, place, arts, and objects described in the book.
The book also does some futile attempt to adopt Brown’s original writing style of introducing facts and history in narration but fails miserably to do so. The facts were very awkwardly placed and gave a feel like they were placed there for the sake of it. This makes the book really uninteresting at many points of your reading. If you are reading the first book by Dan Brown, I suggest that you try some other book to get acquainted with his style.
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