The Eye of God

A Sigma Force Novel

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

In The Eye of God, James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, delivers an apocalyptic vision of a future predicted by the distant past.

In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy—and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin.

At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long dead Mongol king Genghis Khan.

Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.

Not sure Im going to make it...

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

...to the end of this book. I have over 500 books in my Audible Library, never have i had a Narrator that was this bad.

Good story, poor character development

It is a tall order to weave the lost treasures of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan, the approach of Comet Icon (ISON?), dark energy, a wrinkle in the space-time continuum, and the end of the world into one coherent story. Rollins almost manages this feat. My biggest problem was that while the characters were engaged in mortal combat, I didn't care about them. Maybe this is because I'm new to the series. Rollins seemed to assume that I knew and loved them already. Would a bit more character development be too much for the veterans of the series?

As other reviews have noted, the narration was not good. Not only did all of the Asian voices sounded the same, they all sounded like a bad kung fu movie.

The book also suffers by trying to be both a suspense novel and a science fiction novel. It falls a little short on both counts. Good science fiction (IMHO) only breaks one law of physics. This story invents quite a bit of "physics" surrounding dark energy.

I did finish the book. I wasn't wild about the magic in the last chapter either.

Good taut story; well read

This was a fun read, or I should say listen. It took me a bit to see how the difference pieces were going to fit together, but in the end, they all did. I liked the character development and how the story would jump from one group in one locale to another.

please bring back the original narrator.

Great stories as always, but I'm not a fan of the new narrator. Otherwise, it's a solid adventure.

Excellent Story - horrible narrator

Love the books!!! Dislike the narrator. He is hard to listen to. I lost focus many times as he was slow to speak and very monotone.