The Last odyssey by James Rollins – book review
A typical Rollins novel would sum up the entire effort. He has built up a perfect template that works well for him.
Pick up some fantastic myth/legend/historical location/any event from history of any region – check.
Make that into a weapon or threat to the world – check.
Have it linked with some famous personality from the past like Galileo/Da vinci/Newton – check.
Have one Brainiac of a researcher/teacher/scholar checking on some inhospitable terrain, looking for some ancient stuff that people only have read about in stories – check.
Have a black sheep character whose “grand reveal” will be the twist near the climax – check.
Have a brawny character who experiments in different modes of torture only to be killed by similar or same mean in the end – check.
Have puzzles and maps that has been unsolvable for centuries get resolved in matter of chapters – check.
Have the synchronization of chases across the globe between the Sigma group and the villain group to culminate in destroying everything in the end that would’ve remained intact but for their pilferage – check.
Have one of the sigma operatives take a big hit and still end up slightly scratched in the end on a cushy hospital bed – check. Have the main villain die a gory death by the very mean they were searching and chasing all throughout the book – check.
If you’ve managed all these steps, congrats. You have just finished reading the entire sigma series and all of the 15 books of it.
Despite all the mokkais, the premise is what makes the book an interesting unputdownable racy thriller. This time the topic is Homer’s Odyssey and how the sigma team literally visit the city of hell and gets back unscatched. Rollins fans would surely enjoy this one.
Pick up some fantastic myth/legend/historical location/any event from history of any region – check.
Make that into a weapon or threat to the world – check.
Have it linked with some famous personality from the past like Galileo/Da vinci/Newton – check.
Have one Brainiac of a researcher/teacher/scholar checking on some inhospitable terrain, looking for some ancient stuff that people only have read about in stories – check.
Have a black sheep character whose “grand reveal” will be the twist near the climax – check.
Have a brawny character who experiments in different modes of torture only to be killed by similar or same mean in the end – check.
Have puzzles and maps that has been unsolvable for centuries get resolved in matter of chapters – check.
Have the synchronization of chases across the globe between the Sigma group and the villain group to culminate in destroying everything in the end that would’ve remained intact but for their pilferage – check.
Have one of the sigma operatives take a big hit and still end up slightly scratched in the end on a cushy hospital bed – check. Have the main villain die a gory death by the very mean they were searching and chasing all throughout the book – check.
If you’ve managed all these steps, congrats. You have just finished reading the entire sigma series and all of the 15 books of it.
Despite all the mokkais, the premise is what makes the book an interesting unputdownable racy thriller. This time the topic is Homer’s Odyssey and how the sigma team literally visit the city of hell and gets back unscatched. Rollins fans would surely enjoy this one.
Comments
Have you finished all the 15 books ? If so, you should write the 16th book :)
When are you starting on Deus by the way?