You’re left wondering how they were never eaten by wolves growing up let alone having the intelligence and resourcefulness to ever become respected members of their professional fields. except 99% of the time they were the incompetent nitwits. The entire book all the good guys and gals modulate between acting like Keystone Cops or. well, at least they finally figure it out after having known each other for years and years life and death situations will apparently do that for you. “Wonderfully” man hero meets woman femme fatale. well, at least they finally figure it out after working side by side for months and months life and death situations will apparently do that for you. “Thankfully” boy hero meets girl femme fatale. It took me forever to finish because it was just dumb, not engaging at all.Īll the men and women, boys and girls were one-dimensional caricatures of stereotypes Indy! Indy Senior! Marion! Shorty! Bad Guys! Mummy! And the story unfolds in Indiana Jones meets Da Vinci Code fashion. Let’s just say that I found it generally dumb. I don’t know that I could come up with enough super superlatives to quite do it justice.

with maybe a little Wonkaville thrown in. It was like Indiana Jones crossed with Da Vinci Code crossed with Jurassic Park crossed with Zombie Apocalypse crossed with At Play in the Fields of the Lord. Long story short, I didn’t think it was very entertaining or creative. Buy it.I don’t know what you call this book. That being said, this is a solid book and a great place to get started with James Rollins. Publishers, please post the original publication date to make things clear for your readers. Granted, I should have looked a little deeper and at the end of the day it is my fault, but I've read more than 500 books and it's easy to forget a title from a decade ago. I do mind how publishers are playing with publish dates on iBooks to confuse readers as to how new or current the book is. Now I don't mind the seven bucks so much and I don't really mind throwing James a little extra cash. Once I opened the book I realized it was a ten year old book that I had read already. So when I saw this book with cover art I had never seen before and a publish date of October, 2009 I hit the buy button.

James Rollins writes stuff I really like to read.

The only problem is I read it ten years ago.

Excavation by James Rollins