Book Review: Black Order - by James Rollins

Here's my first post! I've started this blog to both keep track of what I've been thinking and what I've been doing. I'm mostly going to post reviews that I am going to write about books I've read, shows or movies I've watched or music I've listened to. I'm also going to post random quotes (hurray for Google personalized pages - I have a ton of quotes stored up. Need a handy quote? Ask me.) AND I'm going to post some of my writing (when I'm done editing - which means I have to finish my book. I'm almost done with the first draft! Hurray for me!). So, really, truly, who the hell knows what I'm going to post on here.

To start out with, I'm going to write a little review on a fabulous book I just finished called "Black Order" - by James Rollins.

I have never read any of the Sigma series, which apparently is an actual series (I'm terrible at reading series. The only one I've stuck with so far is George R. R. Martin's series. It's awesome too). Anyway, It's a series. The characters are vibrant and the book is well-written. It also teaches you a lot about physics, which I find fascinating. I actually have read somewhere about Schrödinger's cat in a box theory, but he mentions it in the book AND ironically, the next night I was watching House and lo and behold, Dr. Wilson made a joke about it ("Unlike a cat, Cameron can't be in two places at once" - elementary um... Wilson). Back to "Black Order" - the book was incredibly informative about Nazi history - specifically regarding Heinrich Himmler, who was apparently very into eugenics (as were most Nazi's - hell, eugenics is part of the whole Nazi principle) and used to vet the SS for "Aryan" types. "Black Order" also had a lot of little juicy fun facts in it - you're sitting in suspense and all of a sudden a fun fact pops right out to great you. I can't say I was on the edge of my seat while reading it, but I did enjoy it and it definitely pulled me along. All in all I'd say it was a great read.

I've just randomly decided I'm going to have a star system. "Black Order" gets 4 out of 5 stars.