Lucas Stoffel

The Secret of Secrets Book Review: I have read every Robert Langdon novel. I know the formula: famous professor, ticking clock, historical architecture, ancient symbols, a villain with a worldview, and enough twists to fill a theme park ride. I know it and I love it and I'm not apologizing. The Secret of Secrets delivers all of this, but something about this one feels sharper.

Of course I loved this book. It's about a rogue AI, and I love a rogue AI. LOL. Origin is Dan Brown doing what Dan Brown does best: taking a genuinely interesting intellectual question and building a page turning sprint around it. This time the question is the big one — where do we come from, and where are we going? — and the sprint takes Robert Langdon through the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Royal Palace of Madrid, and Gaudí's Sagrada Família in Barcelona.