Tim’s Reviews > Inferno > Status Update

I am not a smart woman. But if I were, I'd probably have to put Inferno down. It's funny to me that Brown is obviously trying to listen to his critics by including a woman with a 200+ IQ in this book. But when she's constantly turning to steady, handsome Bobby Langdon for solutions and emotional support, it makes her look the same as the previous female sidekick/tagalongs.

As the progress in these updates clearly shows, I'm not nearly as drawn into this work as I've been with Brown's other stuff. Part of it is more responsibilities outside of reading for pleasure, but I'm not driven to pick this up the way I was with Angels and Demons or The Lost Symbol.

Am I wrong in thinking that Brown's other Langdon books were strikingly more surprising and interesting? The only commonality I see thus far is the whole "It's the Catholic Church's fault" motif.

**Spoiler**And I can't even finish the rest of the chapter without being appalled that the super-genius heroine, after fearlessly rescuing Langdon from an attempt on his life in which she saw her own friend killed, she "whisper[s], her voice taut with fear" when she simply sees the same assassin that, hours before, she cooly saved him from.