A review by taylorhousebooks
Amazonia by James Rollins

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. I chose it because of the author's similarities to Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (and the fact that I have a hard time waiting for their books to come out in paperback). The pacing of the story was fast enough to keep me interested, but slow enough for good character development. I felt a little like I was watching a summer blockbuster action movie, with Army Rangers leading civilians into the jungle on a dangerous, but very important mission (to save mankind, of course). However, I did not like how the book ended. The story was really going somewhere, there was a lot of potential, but the end was a short wrap-up that failed to tie in all of the evidence introduced earlier in the book. Instead, it was a "this happened, then this happened, and everything was good" kind of an ending. I would have preferred the author to have left those ends loose and it would have been a compelling cliffhanger, instead of a stale, feel-good happy ending.