A review by rmwtootsie88
Crucible by James Rollins

5.0

"Eu non creo nas meigas, mais habelas, hainas."
I don't believe in witches, but they do exist. - an old Galician proverb

Wow! What an intense adventure with James Rollins latest in the Sigma Force series. This time we're taken all the way into the Catacombs of Paris. We're witnesses to how creating something meant for good can be used to affect the entire world; And if those with evil intentions reaches it can spread chaos and death for all of mankind.

Reading this book was so adrenaline filled, it felt like I was running the 100-meter dash over and over again. We are taken through the streets Spain in 1611 A.D. to present day Coimbra, Portugal, where Sigma Force Commander Gray Pierce and his team, race to stop something being used to destroy the world before it's too late.

Seriously I was in pure agony for a good part of this book, I'm pretty sure my blood pressure rose to where it shouldn't be. I mean how you gonna do me like that with some of my favourite characters, James Rollins. I love these guys, Gray and Seichan, Kat and Monk.

We get us a few more badass females added to the mix, one of those women is Mara Silviera. And because of their total awesomeness, they're deemed witches by those who can't handle their education and skills, I mean we are taken back to when witches were burned at the stake for this very reason. Sorry, I can't mention anything more or what these women are doing or working on, no spoilers.

If you want pure adrenaline filled,  pulse-pounding action, some history, and present-day education to woo your mind and that will keep you turning pages all through the night, give James Rollins Sigma Force series a go.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Authur C. Clarke, 1962, from his essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination"