The Eye of God

A Sigma Force Novel, Book 9

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

In The Eye of God, a Sigma Force novel, New York Times best-selling author James Rollins delivers an apocalyptic vision of a future predicted by the distant past.

In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy...and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin.

At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long-dead Mongol king Genghis Khan.

Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.

©2013 James Czajkowski (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishers

worst narrator ever

as far as I could make it it seems like it may have been a good story. but this narrator is so bad I couldn't get any further than the second chapter

Different Narrator

Overall excellent story as usual.

This narrator’s accents are distracting. What sounds like his normal accent is Bostonian or upper New York, which comes through sometimes. This isn’t so much a distraction as his Italian for Rachel and her Uncle and the other priest sounds very distinctly German. I found myself unnerved by it.

Otherwise fast paced and excellent

Good story, narration a bit heavy

I have been listening to the Sigma Force novels for a while now. Love the Characters and the writing. Sometimes the writing is a. It heavy on color, but still fun.
This narrator was just not a good fit. The vocal color too prominent and over-bearing. It felt too much like a performance to me and not enough like a reading.

Not as good as others in the series.

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes - if reading the series.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

This plot was more predictable than some others in the series.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

New reader for this book. The characters' voices were too similar-- the Italian characters sounded Asian, like the Asian characters.

Narration is DEPLORABLE!

What did you like best about The Eye of God? What did you like least?

I enjoyed the story. As with most of Rollins' books, I liked the way that he tied things together. This one was certainly a stretch but I'm willing to suspend belief for a while when I'm reading.

As for what I liked least.....dear God....the narration.

Would you be willing to try another one of Christian Baskous’s performances?

Absolutely not. I already got the next Rollins/Baskous book and I've decided to return it. Baskous may be a good fit for some books (those that have only one character) but he can't come close to pulling off these books. His accents are horrible. Most of the time he made Rachel sound more Asian than Seichan and the fact that he couldn't correctly pronounce Vigor nearly drove me to start smoking.

Any additional comments?

I can only assume that Christian Baskous is blackmailing James Rollins because there really is no other plausible explanation as to why he would continue to sign off on letting this man narrate his books. Save the credit.

Great series. But this narrator is pretty bad.

I love the series, they are really interesting and fun to listen to. But this narrator is the worst in this series so far. His accents aren't very good and they change from book to another. Maybe I'm just being a bit critical, but it's annoying..

An amazing adventure

I loved this book in the Sigma Force series. James always takes us on an amazing adventure.

Not his best work....Is sigma getting drawn out?

Any additional comments?

Poor performance and mediocre story at best. I am a die hard fan of the series and I had trouble getting through this one. As other reviews stated, the narrator is not good, but the story is not a whole lot better.

This story does have the same race against the clock urgency to it, and I like the intelligence of the dark energy discussions. I even like the new character, the African American female scientist. But this book is missing an arch nemesis, a "specter like" organization that is trying to manipulate the world as sigma races to overcome the best laid plans.

I will read the next book in the series, but I hope the publisher finds a better narrator.

Poor narration

Story was good but narration is poor. Bring back Peter Fernandez. He is very good.

Story is great, reader is boring

I loved the story and all of James Rollins’ novels. But the reader is boring, monotone, and does not distinguish characters well.