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Again, Dan Brown wrote about the journey of Robert Langdon, the character that he has presented since his second book titled Angles and Demonds (2000). Robert Langdon was a Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology. As usual, Robert was accompanied by a woman along his journey of revealing the mystery. In this novel, he was accompanied by Ambra Vidal. She was a curator of Guggenheim Bilbao, and she was also a fiancee of Spanyol’s prince, Don Julian.
The collaboration of Robert Langdon and Ambra Vidal on their exploration was started when a rich futurist named Edmond Krisch was suddenly killed in the middle of his presentation that was trying to reveal two fundamental questions namely Where do we come from? and Where will we go? Such questions tend to be discussed and emerged in the overall story. He was a computer programmer, scientist, billionaire, artist, and atheist. It seems like when I imagine Edmond Krisch, I also imagine Stephen Hawking, a scientist that is also an atheist. As long as his life, Edmond Krisch always regarded that religion had failed to answer such questions since he thought that the answers given by religion were always the illusion only. It didn’t like science which always gave the exact answers. Thus, he spent his time to seek the answers of such two questions.
Along their journey, Langdon and Ambra tend to cite the wonderful masterpieces such as the masterpieces of Winston Churchill, Friedrick Nietzsche, and William Blake. Besides, the readers are also amazed by the building established by Antonio Gaudi, namely Casa Mila, la Sagrada Familia’s Basilica, and Park Guell. However, it’s unlike The Davinci Code and other Dan Brown’s book. In this Novel (Origin), the Langdon’s missions are easier compare to the previous book, since the writer is likely not emphasizing on the enigmas of code and symbol. Langdon and Ambra are amazed by the sophistication of future technology that they found upon their exploration.
The underlying theme of this novel is religion, technology, and science. Such things that make Dan Brown’s books are entertaining since it makes the readers are confused in differentiating which one is the truth or fiction. When I was reading it, I tried to read as a neutral position, didn’t put my mind in one side whether religion or science.
As usual, Dan Brown is always wise to present the sweet ending after the high tense of conflict. There are many moral values which I could get from this book. Firstly, I am thinking of how sophisticated technology, like Artificial Intelligence (AI), can easily danger human life. That isn’t very pleasant to see the sophisticated technology in the future when human haven’t known wholly about this new creature made by human itself. Further, I understand how we need to prepare ourselves to face the future.
One thing I can reflect according to the novel is that in whole life, we do not only need the rationality, but also hearth, love, and feeling thus the humanity are formed.

That’s all about my review. Thank you