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A review by breckenridge
Amazonia by James Rollins
2.0
This book made me mad. The Yagga concept was super cool, cool enough to make up for the completely generic rest of the plot. Being based in the Amazon obviously you can only be doing an expedition into the uncharted areas for the magic jungle medicine where a previous expedition was lost and you're accosted by hostile tribes and a competing mercenary team. I could have forgiven all the lack of originality cause it could have been a fun read but it wasn't. Most of the characters are lifeless, so lifeless I can't even remember their names or how many there were and I've finished the book less than 10 minutes ago.
The main female character is generic. Hardworking single mom researcher runs off to the Amazon, trips walking through the jungle and spends the evening pining about how the main man had a firm grip when he caught her then rubs jungle neosporin on her little cut, they talk a little, she gets lost in a dark hallway while being probably held hostage by the tribe the spent the rest of the book trying to kill them and accidently goes into main man's room so obviously they MUST have sex....cause that's realistic.....
Long review short...there was one super cool idea, a very generic plot that could have been fun but wasn't, the characters were either as lively and unique as cardboard or they were stupid and super tropey. Or in the case of the 2nd main female character they were the animalistic, dangerous, eternally naked, has to have some body part described for the millionth time every time she walks across a room, sex object. Seriously. This was just lazy writing. The whole 2 stars are for the Yagga concept alone, the rest of the book doesn't get a single star.
The main female character is generic. Hardworking single mom researcher runs off to the Amazon, trips walking through the jungle and spends the evening pining about how the main man had a firm grip when he caught her then rubs jungle neosporin on her little cut, they talk a little, she gets lost in a dark hallway while being probably held hostage by the tribe the spent the rest of the book trying to kill them and accidently goes into main man's room so obviously they MUST have sex....cause that's realistic.....
Long review short...there was one super cool idea, a very generic plot that could have been fun but wasn't, the characters were either as lively and unique as cardboard or they were stupid and super tropey. Or in the case of the 2nd main female character they were the animalistic, dangerous, eternally naked, has to have some body part described for the millionth time every time she walks across a room, sex object. Seriously. This was just lazy writing. The whole 2 stars are for the Yagga concept alone, the rest of the book doesn't get a single star.