ORIGIN (Dan Brown) - February 25/23

 It really did feel like I was reading this forever, even through our Orlando trip, mostly because it feels at least double the length it should be. Big chunks of the book feel like sitting through a scientific presentation, and the climactic reveal is, as a result, hardly as engrossing as it probably should be. Also it feels like Langdon hardly does any riddle-solving at all in this one. He's just along for the ride, mostly. I liked the reveal that Winston was behind the assassination but yeah I was mostly not really into this at any point. ** out of ****