Just try and put it down!!
356857
This was the first book of James Rollins I have read and four reads later its my favorite.  I enjoy all his books, The sigma books are great, but this is a must read for any fans of action/adventure!  Lots of characters,  story is great,  just try and put it down!!
44972
I just want to post this review to further away you to read this book. Do yourself a favour. Read it!
4768347
I dare you to try and put this book down.  I measure book quality in average days from cover to cover.  I only read after the kids are in bed and before I turn out the lights.

I've been tired this week for lack of sleep.

Adventure writers come and go.  Parenting experts constantly invent new spins for the same basic rules.  The Kurmaskie family shows us all how to create adventure while enjoying the simple pleasures of family and life - and prove themselves experts in both categories without ever having to say so.  Unpretentious.  Good-hearted.  Slightly off-balance but always on target.

Joe's books help us think about living a better life -  without preaching a word.  Lots of laughter, some discomfort, and real sadness at the journey's end.  I wanted them to press on to Greenland, Iceland, the UK...  Mongolia for God's sake...  That's good writing.

Any one of Joe's tales might describe a lifetime for most of us.  The difference is that Joe has a whole lifetime of stories.  They just never end, and his ability to relate them, often at his own expense, is a rare find among writers.

That Beth made the journey makes the story all the better this time around.  Her commentary adds wonderful insights, confirming what we'd like to believe as often as it gives the other point of view.  Watching the boys grow up adds to the fun - their priceless lines of insight, those words we'd all hope to be able to say but don't dare once we grow up and get the fun squeezed out of us...

Hey Joe, when are we going to do that trip down the Great Divide Route?  We're doing a warm-up ride up the C&O come spring.  You game?  How about the family?  Let's ride!

Read and be inspired by this book - and then get out there and make your own adventure!
2815233
This is one of those books that you start reading and then, it's 3 am and you don't want to go to sleep because you would have to stop reading! It's a marathon book, meaning you don't do anything else til you've finished it. Suspend all belief and let it sweep you up.
271245
Enough with the dates back and forth!!! It's too hard to follow, especially when one cannot sit for a couple hours at a time to read. In the end, as a friend said, it doesn't really matter, just ignore it and get to the ending. Somehow, that's now how I want to enjoy a book.
452492
What a ride! If a book doesn't hold my attention after a chapter or two, I usually either skim through it, or not finish it at all. Not a problem with this book. I really could not put it down; I kept reading "just one more page". And I found myself laughing and thinking, "I can't believe I laughed at that".If you like a good suspense novel with some twists, read this book; you won't be sorry.
521488
The beginning is so slow.  Actually, it's boring. So I put it down for a couple of months. But people told me it's a good book so I decided to just read it, get it over with.  Besides, I can't NOT finish a book. I want to know how it ends.  So I started again. I trudged along until, finally, I got to the middle - the good part. And it's stay-up-all-night good!! I couldn't put it down. The twists and turns were "amazing." First I liked him AND her. Then I liked her and hated him. Then I liked him and hated her. I found myself thinking ahead trying to figure out which way the story would go.  Then, just when it was getting really, really good, the story just ended.  I'm reading this on my Kindle thinking some pages must not have downloaded. I keep swiping trying to go to the next page. Then I realize there is no next page. Like blowing out a candle, it's just..... over.  I'm disappointed. Where is the justice?! Somebody needs to go to jail or at least a mental facility!!!  This can't be how it ends because now I don't like either of them!!! It's like the writer stopped to take a break and never came back.
152837
I don't like to post bad reviews. I get that as an author you work hard to get this opportunity. You make yourself vulnerable and put your story out there hoping everyone will enjoy it. I try to read books based on reviews not always but sometimes, it's my go-to. This is exactly why I feel like I should write this not to bash but inform. If you enjoy reading and are pretty seasoned this is NOT the one for you. It's wayyyyyyyyy to quick in them getting together, drawn out too long in the background story and then the repetitive line of " like my mother used to say ". OMG!!! How many times can you put some sayings in your story?!! Wayyyyyyyyyyy to many if you ask me. I warned you now if you still decide to buy it and read it, kiss those seconds/minutes/hours of your life good-bye. They are lost and you will regret them!!
966680
Let's face it--you're probably like me: You're hesitant to take on a novel because it doesn't fit with your reading regimen. Your magazine reading will suffer, and, heaven forfend, what if the novel you choose doesn't justify the commitment it requires?

Briefly stated, banish all those concerns and dive headlong into this book. It will hook you. disorient you, spin you into a state where all your waking hours are spent either contemplating the subtler points of the narrative or plotting your escape from your day-to-day life to be able to spend quality time wrapped around its story.

I will pay Mr. Meyer and this book the highest compliment I can pay a piece of writing: it made me rethink my own life. What I am doing, why I am doing it, and is it too late for me to go on a cattle drive?

In closing, if you should pick this book up, read it, and not be transported, transmuted, and otherwise significantly altered by that experience, you have my heartfelt condolences. Because you're legally dead--no one has had the decency to to inform you of as much.
484612
Is there such a thing as a novel that tries too hard?

We know there is; and we know that because weve seen the ones that didn't need to try. A great story pulls you in, lets you enter its enticing undercurrent of plot and twist and character development and protagonist and antagonist, carries you along by vivid description and subtle innuendo and compelling narrative, with your imagination completely caught up in the possibility of the portrait thats being painted, as it irresistibly draws your heart into the most Platonic of affairs with the people whose lives it unveils to you.

A book that tries too hard doesnt pull you, it pushes you  all the way. It spins a scarcely believable story about characters with the depth of a stick-on tattoo (what does Cass really want: Fame? Fortune? Survival? Love?), with a plot you cannot manage to tie down (why in the world are Cass and Micah attracted to each other, just pure unadulterated snark?), and a continual stream of almost conspiratorial asides to the reader that have a constantly derailing effect (Micah really did have a special technique, and it actually worked quite well). By the time you get through the book you are so tired of the narrator, or Chorus, or Muse, or whoever keeps intermittently jamming its meaning down your throat that you wish they could have figured out how to convey it in real prose, not awkward literary imperatives.

But there are worse things than trying too hard. The difference between a review that says Hang it up and don't quit your day job and one that says Keep it up and don't lose sight of your dream lies in nuggets like these:

- The book starts out with one hell of a great line: Everyone gets a free murder
- The comment about the single malt merit badge
- The passage about Micah looking at the picture of his wife, and how it made him feel; it is pure gold

This is not a good book. But Mr. Patrick has three things going for him: imagination, tenaciousness, and audacity; without which no writer ever eventually produced a book worth reading. Like Cassandra of Troy, he has been given a gift but condemned to dismissal. He need only find the resolve required by every author to cut away everything that doesnt look like his statue. I look forward to reading the next one in the series.

JV

Note: I received a free copy of this book from the author, and have written a candid and unbiased review.
3607134
Get a dictionary. Get a thesaurus.  Take a writing class and try again. Only on rare occasions do I put a book down. I'm putting this one down.
1042544
HELP ME! WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE TAKE THIS CONTROL OUT OF MY HAND I CANT PUT IT DOWN. HAVING TO MUCH FUN CANT STOP AAARGHHHHHHHHHHH.
4931812
I was given this book before boarding an airplane by my father in law because he just couldn't get into it after 4 chapters.  Although I didn't think the book seemed interesting after reading the back cover I did suprisingly start to enjoy it.  I've never read one of Grisham's novels previously but knew he wrote alot of books so I thouhgt give it a chance.  Like I said I started getting involved with the storyline and as the book progressed I couldn't wait to see what happened.  Sometimes I won't like the way a book ends because I wanted it to be a happier ending or someone not die, whatever - this book simply doesn't have an ending.  The author justs stops writing.  I don't even think it was an adequate ending for a sequel, Grisham just stopped!!  When i got to the end, I felt like I had completely wasted my time in reading the book at all!  I will never read one of his books again!
4298503
This book is just plain good I did not want to put it down once it got going! The characters and plot rock. The reason ppl don't review more books is because you have to use to many words!!!!!!
2274787
Holy bananas!  I can't believe what I just read...it happened and you will love it.  Can he be stopped!?  Here's a string of random characters to convey my excitement:  hdjeototpypgmvmwuqoqienfmv,dkaoqoeurutjvndlwprpgmvmxkskdjfhhryytwyqiepfplf.fms,anxbzhf
965499
I'm not going to go into details about what this book is about, there are lots of those reviews posted here for you to read through. Suffice to say that the book looked interesting enough for me to pick up and, as other reviewers have noted, it is an engaging read, one that is hard to put down. It was jam packed with interesting observations on our Google+, FB, Twitter, Instagram, web-cam, Google Glass world that we are all residing in and I would gladly have given it 5 stars but for the following:

The book itself is dividing into three "books." The first two books were great, both in terms of the story as well as the thoughtful commentary on our social media driven world. Again, I had a hard time putting the book down as I read it, following the transparency of Mae's life and the issues it was causing her parents and close friends. With great anticipation I flipped the page to start reading book three, only to find...

that it was the worst let down of any book that I have ever read. And I've read a LOT of books.

Mr. Eggers, what were you thinking? It's like you took us on a wild roller-coaster ride to the edge of a cliff and just as we were ready to experience the final plunge you simple end it by having Mae tell us in a single line what happened? (I'm not going to post a spoiler for anyone, but the sentence begins "With a duty that felt holy...") Book three was supposed to be the climax of the story, where all of the secrets were revealed and the truths exposed. Instead you give us five pages of character reflection on a plot summary? Come on! If I may paraphrase from your book, "The Circle needs to be closed" and I'm disappointed that you didn't take the time to finish the book. It's like you saw you were getting close to a certain page limit and then decided, whoops, better end this now before I cross the 500 page threshold.

Definitely a frown, thumbs down and unlike from me. The first 492 pages I was giving you 5 stars, but you get ZERO stars for the last 5 pages. Spend your money if you wish, readers, but be prepared to feel like Mae did after one of her sexual encounters with Francis.
2646097
When I finished reading this I was all set to give this a 4. There were things I didn't care for, certain parts I would have done different or at least think should have been tried. BUT, none of this was the actual main plot around Kit or Grizz or even Grunt. I wasn't sicken by the kidnapping or the idea of a brutal MC club. Just personal book related things(I'm not the biggest fan of being told the story, I tend to call it brain talk).

But I was on a high. THAT ending was beyond perfect and amazingly annoying. ONLY, because I need to know more and I need to know it ALL!!! AS if I didn't have enough questions that need answers now I have EVEN more.

As the day went on and talked with my other book friends who've read it, actually thought about it while in the shower. THAT fact is enough to up my rating.

When a book doesn't leave you or if you don't want to put it down, or the instant you finish reading you NEED to talk about- hell I had to talk during it!!!

I really enjoyed the story as a whole and the plot WAS TOTALLY off the wall different that I didn't see anything coming before I was hit in the face with it. Bravo for that!

5 STARS!!!!