The Last Oracle

Overall I enjoyed the book, lot's of weird stuff and scary action.
A problem I had with the movie “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” was that Indy Jones was the good guy but it was a low bar because the bad guys were Nazis.
There is a little of that problem with this book because while Sigma are the good guys, the bad guys are child abusers from the Soviet Union.

I thought of getting book one before reading this but figured it shouldn't matter. And after finishing it, I was right. The story does contain some tie-ins to previous books, but I think it's pretty minimal and doesn't affect enjoyment of the story.

And enjoy it I did it. My first thought was a more action-oriented Dan Brown. I really liked the pace as it kept things moving along steadily. The plot was sufficiently twisted yet pretty easy to follow. The characters were a little two-dimensional though and you don't really out find out much about them. Perhaps more had already been said in previous books and this one just assumed you know them already. The children in the plot and one of the main characters (the one with amnesia) were the better ones.

Overall though, I really enjoyed the plot and pace. Safe to say I'll pick up more books from James Rollins.