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A review by dementomstie
Subterranean by James Rollins
3.0
It's fairly clear that this is a very early novel by Rollins. There are some really great sequences, but there are also a fair amount of sequences that aren't quite as exciting as later books.
There's a fair amount of good science in this, but there's also some handwaving about how characters can communicate. That's a little unfair to say, but in the later novels Rollins always seems to have a very good and clear explanation of why something happens and here it's just "You have the right ancestry."
The pacing is also a bit strange. It's hard to explain, but places either take days to reach or you can get there in a few hours.
The dangers are really neat and the secrets discovered are something that I kind of wish were revisited in later novels. One of the characters has appeared in another Rollins novel, but just one character and it was as a kind of a wink to the audience who've read all his books.
Overall it was pretty good, especially by the end, it has a really exciting ending, but I like most of his other novels more.
There's a fair amount of good science in this, but there's also some handwaving about how characters can communicate. That's a little unfair to say, but in the later novels Rollins always seems to have a very good and clear explanation of why something happens and here it's just "You have the right ancestry."
The pacing is also a bit strange. It's hard to explain, but places either take days to reach or you can get there in a few hours.
The dangers are really neat and the secrets discovered are something that I kind of wish were revisited in later novels. One of the characters has appeared in another Rollins novel, but just one character and it was as a kind of a wink to the audience who've read all his books.
Overall it was pretty good, especially by the end, it has a really exciting ending, but I like most of his other novels more.