**Spoiler** Subterranean was the last of James Rollins books that I had not read and I suppose it was a so-so experience. I do love the fast-paced action/adventure that Rollins delivers but I think there was just too much going on in this story. A research team is sent to discover a new environment found underneath the bottom of the world, there they discover the unimaginable…but what they have not been told is that another research team walked through the same passages before them…and disappeared.

I do love the blend of scientific details Rollins includes but Subterranean was a little too fantastical to me. It is interesting that the research teams discovered another type of environment underneath Antarctica but another “humanoid” species living devoid of light for eons…too much for me. Also the book ended without the members returning to their own world…which I thought unrealistic and hard to believe. So although this story delivered all the action I wanted the plot just did not do it for me. ( )

My first foray into James Rollins' writing, and I found it entertaining enough to give him another go in the future. If you are looking for a thrilling adventure, this is not quite it, but it's not badly written or laughable. ( )

This book had an interesting premise, but the execution was nothing special. I just think finding a missing aboriginal tribe living underground would be a little more surprising to the people doing the discovery. I guess I just didn't think their reactions were very believable. Thank God for the character of Ben, who tried valiantly to pull the whole book together, yet failed in the end. No one else was believable, and the plot sorta dragged along. Any book I have to plod thru doesn't get a great review from me.

Not that great of a book...3 on a scale of 10.

First off - I absolutely love adventure novels. And as such I am willing to set aside practical physics and reality much of the time in order to sit back and enjoy the ride.

Great writing. Probably not. But Rollins writes fast paced and full of action novels. There is always something happening or someone running from someone chasing them.

I read him, and a handful of others, for the pure entertainment ( )

An underground excavation finds interesting possibilities... possibly a hollow world theory... ( )