Kingdom of Bones (Sigma Force, #16) (2024)

Kay

2,184 reviews1,124 followers

June 29, 2022

Sigma Force is another of my go-to series. Rollins expertly blends science, myths, action, and adventure into this series as well as his standalone novels.

Kingdom of Bones centers in Congo where a virus started. Commander Gray Pierce and his Sigma Force team are called to save the world. I usually enjoy this plotline but I think Rollins got carried away with excessive detail and the story becomes more bizarre as it goes. Truthfully, after nine hours, I only want to know about Tucker and his war dog, Kane. The best part is the author's truth or fiction at the end of the novel.

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Kate The Book Addict

129 reviews297 followers

May 16, 2022

Thanks to HarperCollins Publisher for an ARC for an honest review. Please feel free to send author James Rollins other books or any additional great writers to me too for more honest reviews. šŸ˜Š.
Riveting nonstop action book by James Rollins. Totally addicted!! I personally love the in-depth research the author has obviously done to wrap within a very interesting thriller filled with characters you really deeply care about, whether itā€™s love or hate. The writing is so fluid with just enough details. Each scene you know something importantā€”a clue!!ā€”is there, waiting for you to discover. Fantastic read!!!

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James

Author20 books4,133 followers

October 29, 2022

As I've come to expect, the Sigma Force series delivers on a good story with fascinating background history. #16, Kingdom of Bones, is the 2022 release in the series written by James Rollins, and while it had a lot of positives, it was missing something to keep my full interest. Perhaps it felt a bit like a consolidation of past stories, or some of my favorite characters were missing, or the focus on Africa didn't completely connect with my reading interests. The usual dynamic religious / political / historical web of lies was missing, and I found the villains not so villainy this time. All that said, the quality was still there in terms of writing style and adventure scenes. The focus points were just off. Still looking forward to the next one.

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Chad

9,171 reviews1,004 followers

March 8, 2022

Sigma Force is a group of former special ops who now work for DARPA. They've been trained as scientists and get sent in when odd and dangerous events occur. When a new supervirus breaks out in the Congo, Sigma gets brought in. All signs point towards it originating within the lost kingdom of Prestor John. The story also has some crazy mutant animals in it. Most of the main team are in this one, Gray, Monk, Kowalski, Tucker and Kane. The only member missing is Seichan but Rollins does promise at the end that the next book will center around her. All in all, another solid Sigma Force novel.

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Faith

2,053 reviews612 followers

May 14, 2022

A new virus has appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Sigma Force team comes to the rescue. As usual with the Sigma Force books, there is a lot of action. The sigma crew is endangered and things get blown up. I preferred the parts of this book that were about the virus - where it came from and itā€™s impact. I also liked the creatures that the author invented and the discussion of the history of the Congo. Although this book is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone.

In his notes at the end of the book, the author says that he fully expects to get hate mail for the way the military dog is treated in this book. He deserves the hate mail. I spent the whole book worrying more about the dog than I did about the escaped killer virus. That is probably because, in fiction the scientists always save the day and vanquish the virus. Ha! What a joke!

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Blaine

888 reviews1,020 followers

June 20, 2023

ā€œHere is what you came to find,ā€ Tyende said. ā€œMolimboā€™s people call it Utoto wa Maisha. The Cradle of Life. The Kuba named it Mfupa Ufalme.ā€

ā€œThe Kingdom of Bones,ā€ Gray said.

Tyende stared across the expanse. ā€œBoth names are equally true. As you will see.ā€


Even though I donā€™t normally read military thrillers, the Sigma Force novels have been a guilty pleasure for me over the years. They usually do a nice job of blending the action sequences with interesting history and science. Yes, theyā€™re formulaic, and the bad guys are irredeemably eeeeeeevil while the good guys are effectively invincible. Usually one team is working on a problem in the present, often involving the kidnapping of a person uniquely important to this bookā€™s plot. Meanwhile, on a different continent, the other team is investigating a historical approach to solving the problem. And sooner or later there will be a traitor because ... thereā€™s always at least one traitor.

And Kingdom of Bones stays pretty true to that formula. Thereā€™s a disease outbreak in the Congo that is putting humans into a lethal stupor, while at the same time rendering animals more dangerous. A mix of new and old characters are on the ground trying to understand the disease (and eventually getting kidnapped šŸ¤£), while a team of new and old characters led by Gray follows historical clues that may lead to the source of the outbreak, and potentially a cure.

The explanation for the disease felt pretty farfetched to me, and I can imagine some readers being unable to roll with it. But otherwise, I thought Kingdom of Bones had a pretty good balance between the history and the science. And I donā€™t know exactly when this book was sent to print, but reading it in 2023 and seeing the obvious villain described as ā€œthe Elon Musk of miningā€ perfectly communicated the villainā€™s obnoxious villainy. Entertaining, and one of the better entries in the series. Recommended.

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Jordan Anderson

1,572 reviews45 followers

April 25, 2022

3 stars is usually good for most authors but for Rollins, itā€™s a bit disappointing.

And we are now at 3 books in a row that just failed to grab me like his old stories used to.

Obviously this is far from his worst novel and it was an improvement over The Last Odyssey however Kingdom of Bones still failed to measure up to classics like Amazonia, Ice Hunt and Bloodline.

Iā€™m not gonna go as far as to say Rollins has lost his touch (like Robinson or even Reilly), but after 3 straight Sigma books that didnā€™t resonate with me, Iā€™m wondering if itā€™s time to go back to some stand alone novelsā€¦

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Lydia Wallace

445 reviews76 followers

March 12, 2022

James Rollins is such a great and well known author. I have enjoyed every book he has written. I truly enjoyed yet another intriguing book. The Congo is the setting and the villain is an enormously wealthy viper that is preying on the people of the Congo. He disregards environmental safety and humanity. A UN relief team is in a small village in the Congo where villagers have come down with a paralytic sickness which leaves them nearly catatonic. Before the group can begin to diagnose the camp is overrun by giant ants, and wild baboons. Rollins knocked it out of the park with this one, with a captivating ride from start to finish. Mr. Rollins does not fail to tie it all together, superb. Highly recommend.

Steven

1,157 reviews431 followers

January 26, 2022

A giant thank you to William Morrow for sending me a physical advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!

I've been a big fan of James Rollins since I randomly picked up Map of Bones to have something to read in the car on a road trip with my brother - that should tell you how long I've been following this series!

This one had a breakneck speed - the story hits the ground running and doesn't really ever stop. I very much enjoyed some of the new characters that were introduced. Even though they might just be one-offs, I hope we get to see some of them again!

Definitely pick this one up. There's a bit of backstory that you'll miss out on if you haven't read the rest of the series, but it's not 100% vital to have done so. Maybe 80% vital? :)

Highly recommend this series!

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Stephen Paul

63 reviews64 followers

February 6, 2023

What a brilliant book, I think it's one of the best in the series. Gray and the whole team are back in action on what could be their toughest mission yet.

This book explores what happens when greed and man's neglect for the environment cause Mother Nature to fight back with terrifying consequences.

The action is non-stop and the story flows.

Pierre TassƩ

536 reviews68 followers

May 10, 2022

I found the book a little tired and, given the COVID discussions of the last 2 plus years, the book just didn't cut it in painting a story line similar to what was/is going on. Maybe it's just me but 3 stars because of the characters, the action that was awsome.

Skip

3,544 reviews536 followers

March 2, 2024

Set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Book #16 of the Sigma Force series has the team responding to a panicked call from a Doctors without Borders camp, where a zoonotic jungle plague is making people catatonic and turning animals/insects into killers. The local doctors are kidnapped, along with a research specialist in nearby Gabon, by a Belgian billionaire and his mercenaries, who have built enormous wealth raping the land and enslaving the people. Tucker Wayne and Kane return to supplement Monk, Pierce Gray, Kowalski to pursue the bad guys and track the source of the deadly virus. Rollins does his usual integration of scientific and historical research and fictionalization to create a wild ride, full of death and destruction. Some local folklore, shaman remedies, and African legends, including the story of missionary Prester John, lead part of the team towards finding the cure, deep in the heart of darkness, even as the evildoer uses military technology to delete evidence of his crimes.

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Scott Rhee

2,069 reviews109 followers

October 27, 2023

If Lee Child, Blake Crouch, and Brad Meltzer ever collaborated on a novel, the result would end up something like a James Rollins novel. Rollins deftly combines action/adventure, hard science, and well-researched history in his contemporary pulp novels that are reminiscent of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard, if Burroughs and Haggard were actually decent writers.

ā€œKingdom of Bonesā€ is the 16th book in Rollinsā€™s Sigma Force series, but it is the first of the series that I have read. Basically imagine if G.I.Joe routinely worked with Fringe Division to solve international X-Files cases, and you kind of have an idea of what Rollins is going for in these books.

The plot of this novelā€”-like most Rollins novelsā€”-is too detailed and convoluted to go into, other than to say it is set in the heart of the Republic of the Congo, and it involves a supervirus, mutated baboons, a lost kingdom of gold, a legendary Congolese Christian king, pygmies, aardwolves, robotic killer dogs, and a life-giving Mother Tree that may have provided the genetic material that helped in the jumpstarting of the evolution of humanity. Thereā€™s also, of course, a stock Bond-type villain who is plundering the Congolese natural resources for his own avaricious desires. Thereā€™s also a lovable military dog named Kane.

Itā€™s not totally necessary to know the main characters. They are all kind of cardboard cut-out Action Heroes with names like Grey, Frank, Tucker, and Kowalski. These are the recurring characters, and I donā€™t know their back-stories.

Despite its silliness, ā€œKingdom of Bonesā€ is an exciting action thriller with a lot of fascinating science and African history to keep you turning the pages, assuming the heroic dog isnā€™t enough to do that.

I ā€œreadā€ this as an Audiobook on CD. It was narrated wonderfully by Christian Baskous.

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UroÅ” Novaković

182 reviews

May 17, 2022

As a person who read all of Sigma Force novels to date, I can say without a doubt, that this is the worst one yet.
This is sad to me because I used to adore this series. This series has been, for the most part, on the decline since the end of the Guild.
And Kingdom of Bones is no exception. This novel is too big for the story it's trying to tell. The first half of the book is absolute nothingness. There's almost no Sigma at all in the first half of the book. Just random, unimportant sentences to increase that page count. I assume James is getting paid by the number of pages. So yeah, the pacing is terrible.

There is nothing original in this book. We've seen it all in the previous entries, and to make it worse, it was all done better in the previous novels.
Kingdom of Bones is the definition of recycled content and repetitiveness.
We have, yet again, Monk getting kidnapped only to be able to use his C4 prosthetic to escape the situation. I don't think there's been a single book where he didn't do that after he got the arm.
And of course the rest of the group uses the built in GPS to track him down, revealing the enemy HQ. That never happened before (sarcasm).
Yet again, Sigma prides itself on being the first on the scene. And it literally never is. And even on rare occasions when they are, it doesn't really matter.
Kowalski says something dumb only to be followed by "Grey ignored him". If I got a penny for every time Grey ignored him...

This book is just so boring that even Seichan decided not to be in it. The only good thing about KOB are the few Tucker and Kane parts.
And don't even get me started on the cast in this book. Half of the people here are just named cardboard cutouts. And that goes for both the people on the "good" side and the "bad" side. You can literally write out at least 5 characters from this book and nothing would change in this story.

This book is a result of an author who is also tired of writing these, but they are what he's known for so he kinda has to since none of his other projects picked up in popularity.
The Sigma Force well has officially dried up. Time to move on.

== Potential semi spoilers ahead ==

Charlotte is one of those named characters in the book that do absolutely nothing. The only thing she does is to say how she remembered the promise she made to Disanka and her child. She says that at least 40 times in this book. We don't have amnesia, we remember James. That's her only role in this story.
There are a few others who were literally just people with a name. I don't even remember if some of them died or made it til the end from how unimportant they are.

And then you have Benjie, a character who pretty much solved 90% of the issues in this novel. An autistic genius. The other 10% of puzzle solving was Gray.
Yes, Gray Pierce got outsmarted in this novel in almost every single scene. The guy who is literally in Sigma because of his ability to see patterns and solve puzzles.
They should hire Benjie instead because next to him Gray felt like a side character in this whole novel.

David Eppenstein

743 reviews183 followers

February 16, 2023

As I have mentioned in other reviews Rollins is an author I read for entertainment, for fun. He is an author I follow and whose books I collect. While this might be true I have not spared him criticism when it is due. If you doubt then read my recent review of Rollinsā€™ latest project The Starless Crown which only got 2 stars and was a major disappointment to this fan. I say all this because this book will really be hard to review though I give it a grudging 4 stars. My difficulty is based on the fact that reading this book was literally exhausting. Rollins writes very good thrillers with an emphasis on the thrills but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. The good guys in this book are faced with one calamity and catastrophe after another and frequently before the previous catastrophe has been resolved. And the mishaps and terrors are so frequent and so over the top that the readerā€™s ability to suspend logic is sorely taxed. Yes, this is fiction so liberties with reality are expected but if it is done too much and to extremes then the story is threatened with becoming silly and beyond even a fictional acceptance of reality. In this story I think Rollins went too far and came dangerously close to silliness. But what is the story about?

Like all of Rollinsā€™ Sigma Series the stories are based on science and the science is spun into a story of great peril. In this book the science involved is about viruses and DNA. Considering our present reality a very timely subject wouldnā€™t you think? A group of humanitarian doctors and scientists operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) discover people who are afflicted with an unidentifiable disease that renders them lethargic and progress to almost a zombie like condition. The facility the humanitarians are working at is then attacked by a tribe of crazed baboons but a local tribal shaman arrives and uses strange powder to repel the baboons. As this is happening hoped for rescue arrives in helicopters but the rescuers are actually there to kidnap the scientists for their employer an uber rich Belgian. This Belgian has a very James Bond type villain operation in the central DRC. Once the Sigma team arrives on the scene it is decided that one team goes after the kidnapped scientists while another group goes into the jungle to learn about the origins of the shamanā€™s powder. From this point the book follows the storyline of the two teams.

As I have already stated the perils faced by the Sigma teams is more than a bit over the top and can leave the reader out of breathe and exhausted but you will keep turning pages. The team going after the doctors and scientists is more of a conventional Sigma story while the team looking for the shamanā€™s powder starts conventionally it then meanders into borderline fantasy in my opinion. Clearly this book allowed Rollins to harken back to his early books in which he created monstrous and terrifying creatures. I also canā€™t help but feel this book coupled with what was contained in

The Starless Crown indicates that Rollins is traveling in a direction I do not care for. Creepy creatures were fun in the 1950ā€™s when I was a kid but not today. This book had more than its fair share of such creatures and was part of the excess that I think Rollins exhibited in this story.

On a positive note, like all Sigma Series books you will also learn things. In this book the reader will learn about the DRC and some of its history as well as quite a lot about viruses and DNA and just how important and dangerous they are to all living things. I give the book 4 stars but I can only offer a cautious recommendation of the book. Some will love the book while others may find it silly. Whatever your opinion, enjoy.

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Julie

1,142 reviews17 followers

May 12, 2022

I love James Rollins' books...what else can I say? And you are very sneaky James Rollins! I read Amazonia this winter and you did get your way and incorporate the you know what into Africa! Bravo! I like the facts and fiction mixed into a tale that somehow doesn't seem to far fetched anymore.

Bill Riggs

667 reviews10 followers

May 15, 2022

Expect the typical Rollins action scenes along with a story involving the secret world of viruses that is guaranteed to get under your skin.

Glen

5,642 reviews66 followers

February 28, 2022

I won this book in a goodreads drawing.

Weird stuff centering around a virus is happening in The Congo. Sigma Force gets on the scene. Finds Prester John's kingdom, and assorted other strangeness.

Reminded me of a cross between Congo, and the old French novel, The Pathless Trail.

Actually less frightening than the current pandemic.

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John Paxton

129 reviews166 followers

September 21, 2022

Not bad but not Rollin's best. It took me the first 200 pages to start getting interested which is nearly half the book. Very slow start after the inevitable back story. If I wasn't such a Sigma fan, having read every single book in the series, I wouldn't have been so forgiving. Hope the next can come up with a new type of villain and not so repetitive themes.

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Horace Derwent

2,368 reviews214 followers

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April 22, 2022

Notes from the Scientific Record

This story delves into the bizarre biology of
virusesā€”specifically how those tiny infectious specks tie all
life on Earth together in a vast invisible web. I pitched
this story long before ā€œcoronavirusā€ became part of our
modern zeitgeist, before COVID-19 grew into a global
pandemic. I debated whether I should even finish writing
this novel while a plague swept the world. It struck me
as the epitome of hubris to craft a story of a deadly
virus when reality was far more frightening (and
heartbreaking) than any work of fiction could be.
Furthermore, it felt insensitive to tackle such a subject at
this moment, to seek to entertain with ā€œplague fictionā€
when the world was suffering.
Since you are holding this book in your hand, you know
how my deliberation ended. Why? First, I should admit
that Iā€™ve tackled ā€œpandemicā€ threats in past novels (The
Seventh Plague, The Sixth Extinction). My intent with
this book was not to repeat myself. The conceit of this
story was less to address the plague as it was to look
deeper into the source: the weird biology of viruses. It
was a subject that I thought could be of interest to
readersā€”and maybe an important one to address now.
During my research for this story, I discovered how
truly strange, diverse, and ubiquitous viruses are in
nature. Every day, trillions of viruses rain from the sky.
Each hour, some thirty-three million viral particles
cascade onto every square meter of the planet.* Still,
despite being so abundant, viruses remain a mystery.
Even today, less is known about the biology of viruses
than any other life form.* In addition, it is speculated
that there are millions, if not trillions, of viral species yet
to be discovered.
Still, what is known about viruses is how deeply theyā€™re
entwined into our evolutionary history. Their genetic code
is buried deep in our DNA. Scientists estimate that
between 40 to 80 percent of the human genome may
have come from ancient viral invasions.
* And itā€™s not
just us. Recently scientists have discovered how
intimately viruses are woven throughout the natural
world. They are the tie that binds all life together. In
fact, researchers now believe that viruses could offer a
clue to the origin of life; they could be the very engines
of evolution, perhaps even the source of human
consciousness.*
So, while this book is not a pandemic novel per se, I
believe itā€™s far more frightening.
Why?
Because of one last warning I heard from scientists:
Virusesā€”both out in nature and inside our bodiesā€”are
not done changing us, of evolving us. And itā€™s
continuing right now as you read this.

Notes from the Historical Record

ā€œThe horror! The horror!ā€
Those are the dying words of the villain, Kurtz, in
Joseph Conradā€™s Heart of Darkness. It is the moment
when Kurtz recognizes the atrocities and cruelties he has
inflicted upon the native peoples of the African Congo. It
also serves as a warning: to beware that darkness in all
of our hearts.
Conrad wrote this account (serialized in 1899) based on
his captainship of a steamship along the Congo River,
where he bore witness to the brutality of colonial rule of
the Congo Free State, which he described as ā€œthe vilest
scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of
human conscience.ā€* In a little over a decadeā€™s time,
ten million Congolese would be killed. As described by
British explorer Ewart Grogan: ā€œEvery village has been
burnt to the ground, and as I fled from the country, I
saw skeletons everywhere; and such posturesā€”what
tales of horrors they told!ā€*
So how did these atrocities come about?
Sadly, it was all due to advancements in medicine and
technology. First, it was the discovery of quinineā€”the
antimalarial compoundā€”in the early nineteenth century
that would open the heart of the continent to the world.
Portuguese and Arab slavers had already been raiding
the Congo, but with a treatment for malaria, a great
period of European colonization began. The French
grabbed a northern swath of the Congo, while King
Leopold II of Belgium secured a million square miles of
the southern half, roughly a third the size of the
continental United States, with ā€œcloth and trinketā€ treaties.
*
Next came the technology of the ā€œpneumatic tyre,ā€
invented by the Scottish veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop.
This set up a gold rush for sources of rubber, of which
the vines of the Congo were a major source. It
suddenly became exceedingly profitable to exploit and
enslave the Congolese villagers. King Leopold set up
stringent quotas for both rubber and ivory to be
produced by each village. The price for any shortfalls
was the loss of a hand. In a short period of time,
human hands became a form of currency throughout
the Congo Free State, along with severed ears, noses,
genitalia, and even heads. In addition, Belgian officers
carried out a pogrom of terror, involving the crucifixion
and hanging of men, women, and children.*
These atrocities would go unreported for over a decade,
leading to the eventual slaughter and starvation of half
the Congolese population. While Conradā€™s Heart of
Darkness served as a literary vehicle to showcase these
atrocities, it was actually the work of missionaries,
specifically an American, a Black Presbyterian reverend,
William Henry Sheppard, who would expose the world to
the true horrors suffered by the Congolese during his
stint as a missionary in the region.*
But these atrocities were not the only ā€œhorrorsā€ that the
Reverend Sheppard experienced during this bloody time.
Another account of Sheppard was buried under bones.
It was a tale tied to the maps, relics, and myths of
another Black Christian patriarch in Africa.
Most donā€™t know that story.
Until now.

Wendy

784 reviews8 followers

May 21, 2022

3.5* Another adventure for the Gray Pierce and Sigma Force. This time they are sent to Congo to investigate a debilitating new disease. They discover it's a never before seen virus and embark on a quest to find where it came from and how to cure it. For those who have read this author's works, we get the typical action-packed scenes. There's also a mystical element centering around the legend of Prester John. The usual cast of characters are there minus Seichan. It is entertaining and fast-paced.
My main takeaway from this book though is that nature is beautiful and wonderful, but can also be violent and deadly. One of the characters said something to the effect of what if these viruses and diseases are Mother Nature's way of ridding herself of humans? It's not like we have been great stewards of the planet. Definitely something to ponder.

Hannah

326 reviews15 followers

June 7, 2022

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Dave Wickenden

Author9 books96 followers

May 16, 2022

When a strange illness is shows up in the Congo interior that puts people in a near comatic state yet turns animals into rabid aggressors. Sigma is called in. Following clues from a early missionary, Gray tries to get to the origin of the virus while the rest of the team investigate an evil billionaire who wants to use the pandemic to steal more resources from the country.

As with all of Rollinā€™s stories, the pages turn themselves with blistering speed and are filled with both historic and scientific facts in understandable terms. Very satisfying read!

Mark

2,359 reviews28 followers

May 14, 2022

Love these James Rollins thrillers...Cover to cover thrills abound as Rollins brings two of his popular series together, the Sigma Force plus Tucker and Kane...They team up to investigate a strange, dangerous viral outbreak in the Congo region of Africa...As always, Rollins provides lessons in African history and virology in this thrilling page-turner...Love 'em all!

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Sahitya

1,125 reviews239 followers

May 24, 2022

CW: pandemic, virus affected animals, violence, pet injury, destruction of nature.

Itā€™s always fun getting back to a new installment in this series and while I couldnā€™t read it immediately upon release, Iā€™m glad I caught up soon.

I usually never even bother reading the summary of a Sigma Force because I will read it anyway, so imagine my surprise when I open it and realize it has a pandemic. Iā€™m actually pretty astonished that this is my third or fourth book with a pandemic and itā€™s aftermath premise since Covid started and Iā€™m willingly reading them. I didnā€™t think I had it in me. But this is also not the first pandemic story in this series, so I somehow felt it easier to read because I can kind of guess the beats of this story.

Iā€™m not gonna talk much about the writing or action because they are always fun to read when written by Rollins and this is no different. I however, liked that the author brought his veterinarian experience into this book which features many many different creatures, both real and genetically different, and it was all quite terrifying to read. The author also throws light on the colonization of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the two wars which devastated it, and how even now, other countries and corporations try to exploit the country for its rich natural resources while its people suffer under the atrocities of warlords, poachers, militias and many more.

But the one thing I will take away from this book is how the author manages to describe Mother Nature as a sentient force who wonā€™t always remain silent in the wake of unfathomable destruction, deforestation, pollution and exploitation of natural resources conducted by human beings. We as a species have only been part of this world for a tiny amount of time and when we tip the balance too far, it wonā€™t be surprising if Mother Nature decides to retaliate and wipe us off. Itā€™s undeniable that we are seeing some forms of her indignation in how climate change is ravaging the world, maybe only in its nascent stages with more devastation to come; and how the havoc Covid caused across the world, helped along by incompetent governments and illogical responses by people, has wiped off millions of people in just a couple of years.

We have many scientists and intellectuals warning us that things will get worse in the future unless we do something and I feel this book is one among many fictional stories urging us to consider the same. If we continue with the take, take, take attitude, weā€™ll have nothing but ourselves to give up in the future.

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Ronie

Author64 books1,211 followers

September 28, 2022

Only James Rollins can make you fear the flutter of butterfly and moth wings ... A good read. I always enjoy Sigma Force stories, especially beloved character, Kowalski.

Madlen Mesrobqn

37 reviews

April 18, 2023

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Michele Bartholomew

44 reviews

January 17, 2024

This book is a fantastic combination of history, medicine, action, and friendship!

Nancy

430 reviews

May 9, 2022

This was a total thrill ride from beginning to end. The science in it was fascinating to me and added to the story rather than distracting from it. The fast pace made the book very hard to put down.

The characters in the Sigma series are what keeps me coming back for more. I will have to admit that I have become very attached to certain of them. This book featured some of my favorites such as Kowalski, Tucker, and Kane. I also really enjoyed Benjie, the biologist. Towards the end when everything was so uncertain, I actually got weepy.

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