Review: The Judas Strain

Fin­ished read­ing The Judas Strain by James Rollins. I get the feel­ing it is part of a series, but it was an okay read by itself.

Just an okay read, you ask? Well, yes… The story line relied on overly dra­matic sadist antag­o­nists, bad sci­ence, and mys­ti­cism. Not exactly what I’m look­ing for in a seri­ous action novel.

The book did have a redeem­ing fea­ture: very cre­ative his­tor­i­cal fic­tion. I love his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, espe­cially when the blanks filled in by the author are com­pletely insane and implau­si­ble, yet still fit the his­tor­i­cal record (e.g., aliens, sea mon­sters, etc etc…). The blank filler in this novel was pretty interesting.

Give it a read at Ama­zon.