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Origins by Dan Brown

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Brief synopsis (no spoilers):  Things go horribly wrong at tech giant Edmund Kirsch's presentation to share his ground breaking findings. Symbologist Robert Langdon gets caught in the cross hairs and must find out what's going on.  

Category: Adult Fiction

Why I chose this book: Liked other books by this author 

My personal opinion: This was a fun read. I always take of Dan Brown's books with a grain of salt and don't take it seriously. But his stories always include art and historical and cultural details, all of which I enjoy. 

Warnings
Language: None
Violence:  A few episodes (fighting/death)
"Adult" situations: Homosexuality mentioned at the end (I really wish he hadn't, I feel like it was just added in for effect. Boo!)
Death: Main character and minor character (both mildly gruesome - not overly descriptive, just violent in how thy happen)

Movie rating equivalent: PG-13

Protagonist description:  
Robert Langdon is a Harvard Professor of Symbology who had been a teacher and later mentor to Edmund Kirsch. 

Edmund Kirsch - A technological and innovative giant who has made a huge discovery he wants to share with the world. 

Ambra Vidal - Independent woman, dating the Prince of Spain, head of the Guggenheim Museum.

Point of view of story: Chapters are told from different character's perspectives. Sometimes it was hard to keep track of who was who or who was speaking, but not to the point where it was annoying enough to stop reading. 

Book length: The story is faced paced and covers a short period of hours, but was a long read (over 400 pages)

Story flow: Sometimes it was hard to follow and remember everything related to each character/story because the story was told by several narrators and jumped around so much. 

Grammar and spelling issues: None

Character connection (no spoilers): None

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