spoiler visualizarMariana 29/04/2022
Demographic reflection with a tad of drama.
The book "Inferno" by Dan Brown, is one of the Robert Langdon sequence, more specifically, the fourth book. Like his other books, Inferno can catch the reader's attention thanks to its easy language and the attraction held by the book.
Like previous Langdon books, the story was built in an investigative context. However, what is peculiar about this book amongst the others, is you don't know at first how the story started.
In the book's beginning Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital in Florence, Italy, with no idea of how he got there. He realizes he was inserted in something of large proportions and he has to figure out what he got himself into.
Along with the doctor who treated him, Sienna Brooks, Robert starts his quest for the truth in a cylinder found at his coat with a biological risk symbol. He found out he somehow got dragged into the position of tracking the initial point of a plague yet to be released. This plague was biologically engineered by a genetic expert who believes humanity is heading to its end due to overpopulation.
I had already read this book before, but this is the first time I've read ever since the pandemy and also the first time I have reviewed it. And truth be told the pandemy altered my perspective of this book. First, deaths on a massive scale would affect more significantly those without resources to access quality medical treatment. Second, the psychological state of the ones who remained would cultivate fear,my guess is that this fear would go on for at least two centuries.
In spite of what I have just mentioned, the book brings an interesting reflection about the planet?s state with the current demographic concentration. I particularly like this book. For it was able to drag me into its reality, and I was able to identify myself with the different views of the characters.