Review: The Last Odyssey

The Last Odyssey by James Rollins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the first time I'm reading a Sigma book in electronic form, due in large part to the pandemic shutting down all the libraries. But perhaps having the ebook helped me savor this one a little more strongly, and boy, does Rollins deliver as awesomely as ever on this, the fifteenth novel of his signature series. Scarily apocalyptic as we focus on a new group of villains bound and determined to reawaken the horrors of the past, The Last Odyssey upends all the rules of history and exploration, showcasing theories that perhaps the Greeks, as well as the great societies of medieval Islam, got to explore a hell of a lot further than the Mediterranean around which they first sprung up. As far as Greenland, with the possibility that Tartarus may have been hidden in a near-isolated corner of Morocco's High Atlas Mountains...and all that time, the scientific advances of those societies have been waiting to be rediscovered. If only forces like the Apocalypti weren't coming for them. The stakes have never been higher for Sigma before, but holy God, nothing beats that terrifying cliffhanger right at the end...

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