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Just finished Origin last night and the whole “Winston was behind everything” “twist” felt so rushed and random. I guess I was just spoiled by the insane twists in inferno and the terrifying villain that Zachary was in Lost Symbol that the ending of Origin just felt lame to me. Brown builds up Valdespino to be this imposing scary dude who it seems like you shouldn’t mess with and it turns out he was just gay and in love with the king?? Wtf. I feel like it just needed something more. Avila was really the main villain but I also felt a bit sympathetic for him because of his past and the way he was manipulated so it felt like he wasn’t a villain at all but just another pawn in Winston’s game. Let me know your personal thoughts

I want to preface this with saying that I'm not a dan brown hater. I enjoy his books. I read for pleasure, not for a deep literary analysis lol.

That said, SoS just kind of felt like a draft copy to me.

The first half was great. But by the end, I was just ready for it to wrap up. They painstakingly walked through each room in the tunnel, slowly explaining more about the plot. Then they had a 1/1 billion thing happen when they happened to find a door in the pitch black leading them to the reactor room and allow them to survive.

Then finch talks A LOT more about everything. Repeating all the ideas.

And then there are still 100 pages. I thought for sure something else would happen? But no, just 100+ pages of banal dialogue about the project and noetics.

And really, the CIA completely stealing a random half baked college thesis? I could think of at least 5 more storylines that are at least slightly more compelling. No Sasha epilogue? No golem epilogue? Jonas did nothing too. How about the golem dying and describing a true death and what it feels like?

The Golem turn was great.

Anyways, it just felt like. They created a great, tightly written, first half. The second half felt like it needed another pass of review. Refine the flow. Cut out repetition. Add in some more compelling storylines.

SoS wasn't a horrible book. But it's a disappointment, because I believe the story could be alot more compelling and tightly written with some more effort. It didn't meet up with it's full potential.

The twist about Golem was the most predictable thing there has ever been in Dan Brown books. It was so obvious from very early on.

Thats all, Im spoken.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a russian version of this book. I wanted to gift it to my mother but i haven’t been able to locate a physical copy anywhere. Even if it’s a digital access file, and help hunting would be greatly appreciated. :))