In the race to save one of their own, Sigma Force must wrestle with the deepest spiritual mysteries of mankind in this mind-expanding adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, told with his trademark blend of cutting edge science, historical mystery, and pulse-pounding action.
Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend's wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow, his one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak—until a brilliant neurologist offers a radical approach to "unlock" her mind long enough to ask a few questions.
What Pierce learns from Kat sets Sigma Force on a frantic quest for answers that are connected to mysteries reaching back to the Spanish Inquisition and to one of the most reviled and blood-soaked books in human history—a Medieval text known as the Malleus Maleficarum, the Hammer of Witches. What they uncover hidden deep in the past will reveal a frightening truth in the present and a future on the brink of annihilation, and force them to confront the ultimate question: What does it mean to have a soul?
My Review:
Oh, wow, this book was so freaking awesome! Taking place around Christmas, which really sucks because it's a time of joy and celebration being marred by all these threats. While this book, to me, isn't as scary as The Demon Crown, well, nothing can be because that tapped into a pretty primal terror, it is pretty intense!
The question of AI's is pretty fascinating! But it can be scary, like in a Terminator kind of way. Which is why this is all set off, in a very bloody present day beginning, And the technology showcased, from the brains of the machine, to how they communicate with Kat, yeah, was so intriguing to read about!
This book had a lot of separate elements, from Kat in the hospital, Seichan, and Pierce in Europe, and while they did influence each other, they didn't come together, because there was more than one threat being faced in this book!
I do think that the final paragraph of the synopsis is a bit misleading, maybe it's not from the final draft of the book. Because there's no talk of souls in this book, really. And the truth of the present doesn't have much to do with the threat from the past, in the sense that one leads to the other. They're separate, but one threat is capable of using the other. Yeah, I'm trying not to spoil. Hopefully I succeeded.
Yeah, this was a really fantastic book, and I can't wait for the next one!
Author: James Rollins
Series: Sigma #14
Read: December 20th, 2018
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Love his writing and this series, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: William Morrow
Expected Publication: January 8th 2019
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