The Blood Gospel | The Order of the Sanguines Book 1

The Blood Gospel is a horror novel in The Order of the Sanguines series by author James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell. An earthquake in Masada, Israel, killed hundreds of people and discovered a grave buried in the mountain. A trio of investigators including Sergeant Jordan Stone and others are sent to make a macabre discovery of an underground temple containing the body of a mummified girl.

Here are the top 3 reviews and comments that readers love about this fascinating book.

Review 1: The Blood Gospel audiobook by Jean

Surprising Disappointment

I’ve read all of James Rollins’ books. I buy and read/listen as soon as each new one comes out. I was surprised when I was disappointed in this one. The story seemed to be a series of hackneyed elements from other series and books I’ve read over recent years. The characters’ dialogue was juvenile in many instances. I expected someone to come out with “golly gosh” at any time. Overall it didn’t read/listen like a true James Rollins book with the action rolling me along to the point that I could not put the book down. Please where is Sigma Force??

The redeeming quality was the narrator. He brought life to the mostly cardboard characters with his voice.

Review 2: The Blood Gospel audiobook by Cidney

Um, What Was This Book About Again?

Yeah, as a fan of Rollins’ Sigma Force stories, as well as most of the stand alones, I was expecting a rip-roaring tale from “Blood Gospel.” I don’t know, either this was the driest vampire tale I’ve ever read or it was the driest vampire tale Baskous ever read, but this one tried to put me to sleep. Though, out of my respect and enjoyment of past Rollins tales I did make it through all 12+ hours!

Was it the reader, or was it the writing? It’s hard to say. Perhaps a bit of both. The story has the classic 50’s sci-fi movie set up with the ballsy, brash Hero, the intellectual and repressed Heroine and a Quest, but it’s missing the fun! The interplay between the Hero and the Heroine is limited to exposition as dialog and action sequences. We learn about their growing mutual attraction through inner dialog. And then there are the vampire priests – zzzz

Guilty vampires are interesting if their guilt drives them to action (Blood Oath). Pious guilty vampires, turns out, are a lot less interesting.

Baskous’ narration, with its white-noise pitch and cadence, didn’t help. He wasn’t feelin’ it, or maybe there just wasn’t much to feel.

Review 3: The Blood Gospel audiobook by Domingo

James Rollins goes full on twi-tard.

Previous novels released from James Rollins were riveting, thrilling page turners. Unfortunately, his latest work is not. To put it bluntly this work feels to have heavily borrowed from the twilight series. Also the narrator is a bit dry and unsuited for this reading.

Vampires, really? Once I discovered this “plot twist” the book lost all appeal to me. I attempted to return it, however there seems to be some issues with audible returning this work…of…well something.

If this character trait was revealed within the book summary I would have saved some $$$ and moved on…Hopefully someone else will see this and have this additional information and move on to something a little more worthwhile.

 

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