sofia_17's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, and Infertility
sina4books's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Infertility, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Excrement, and Gun violence
Minor: Rape and Pregnancy
laurajones's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Graphic: Infertility
Moderate: Suicide, Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Excrement
Minor: Colonisation
llauren23's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Moderate: Infertility and Suicide
Minor: Sexual assault
alyssawatsonlee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Infertility
tiemzahra's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This book was intriguing, too intense for my mild self. But towards in the middle, I simply couldn’t stop reading. Twists here and there,
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couldn’t appreciate what they did for the movie, that Sienna was the bad guy after all, because in the book, what Sienna believed is more complicated.I might wait for a while before starting another Dan Brown. His books were well-crafted, but sometimes books of the same author with similar template put me off (eg. Murakami). But you could appreciate the intricacies of his story, like I was reading nonfiction in a fiction, if that makes sense. This book features the poet Dante and I learned so much of his life history.
Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Body horror, Gun violence, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide
Minor: Mental illness
meganpbennett's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital, with no memory of how he got there, or even knowing that he's in Florence, Italy, instead of Massachusetts. He's attacked by an assassin, and flees with a doctor. Like other Dan Brown novels, Langdon is fleeing various authorities while piecing together a mystery, one that starts with Renaissance painting and eludes heavily to Dante's Divine Comedy, as expected from the title.
Note: There is a heavy theme of
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"world destroying plague"Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Infertility, Blood, Grief, and Sexual assault