Origin by Dan Brown

Origin by Dan Brown
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Surprisingly, Brown’s Origin ticks few boxes. He’s developed a basic formula which is too familiar to his other books. He tackles Science and Religion. There’s a chase with a female protagonist who is also of high intelligence. There’s lots of cutaway chapters and convenient flashbacks so that we gain a perspective of what the authorities are up to who further emphasise the innocence or guilt of the protagonist. And let’s have a shocking twist at the end where a character who you’d never expect to have anything to do with the plot actually engineers the plot. That said, there is some very forward thinking, and while it isn’t quite the shocker that the conspiracy promises it to be; it still provokes a lot of thought. We also have a fictional Steve Jobs in our presence with Jarvis as a personal assistant. But these books do wonders for local landmarks and encourages the world to visit them.

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