Review: Great read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2013
I read Dante's Inferno in high school and this book seemed interesting using Dante's book as a jumping off point. This was a great book! The book follows the lives of several people who all know each other from school, giving their history so you understand their interactions as adults. The chapters initially do not follow along in any discernible pattern going through character history to explain why the character acts the way he/she does, but eventually each storyline brings itself to the same point and the plot moves forward from there. This is the only negative I have about this book, that it jumps around a lot in the beginning chapters and for a while there was a storyline I didn't think they would get back to.Outside of that, the book was well-written, engaging, and gave an interesting theory about Dante's Inferno. Even with the slight early-going issue with the chapters, I kept reading knowing it would work out (or at least hoping!) and it did. After buying into the premise of the book, the ending was great! I think the author tied everything up well and I was left wanting even more!