Thursday, September 19, 2013

The Eye of God : A Sigma Force Novel by James Rollins

Nobody, and I mean nobody does Action-Adventure like James Rollins.  The Eye of God is the 9th in the Sigma Force series, and is just as amazing as the others.  Usually, I find myself bored with the characters, plots, or seemingly cookie cutter methods that authors employ when writing long running series, but not with Sigma Force.  James Rollins is a gem and his writing always has you on the edge of your seat.  My favorite part of the Rollins' books is the "fact vs. fiction" section at the end.  James Rollins is a researcher, an academic, through and through, so it's always interesting to find out what pieces of the story were real and which were fictional.
I have read other reviews of this book online and one of the complaints are that the people who work for Sigma Force seem unnaturally talented.  Well, when one is working for a covert government agency you should be resourceful and intelligent - duh.  I never heard anyone complaining about James Bond - geez.  Second, this book may be hard to follow if you have never read any of the proceeding Sigma Force books.  The relationships between the characters have depth, the depth that one may expect after "working together" in nine books.  All in all, I love James Rollins, his characters and his books.  Just a warning, this is probably not a good book for bedtime reading - I was up until 2am one night and eventually put the book down after I couldn't take the suspense.

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