Review: Fast-Paced Action Continues In This 2nd Book Of Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2013
The Morpheus Initiative SeriesThe entire Morpheus Initiative is action and adventure and scrape-of-the-teeth thriller escapes.  I love historical conspiracy stories (well-written ones, anyways).  And despite pretty high expectations on my part for how fun it would be to read this set, this entire set of books blew those expectations to shreds as the action whipped past at a far greater rate than I expected.Different stories use different methods to get the action rolling and keep it there - this series uses psychics and remote viewing to determine their next step and as an integral tool for creating tension.  The remote viewing ability is mostly for going back into time to view how traps were set up and how to get past them.  There are also instances of premonitions of things about to happen or that are currently happening.  For the most part, none of the characters have a good grasp on their powers, so it can be hit or miss and seems much more like current reality that way.  Plus, if you don't ask the right questions, you may not see something obvious because of being focused in another direction.I bought and read the Pharos Objective back in 2011, but realized when I bought the prequel story recently that I couldn't remember much of Book 1 anyways.  So after reading the prequel, I re-downloaded and re-read Book 1 - and then immediately had to purchase Books 2 and 3 and jump right into their action.  ~lol~The Mongol Objective - Book 2You definitely want to read Book 1 (The Pharos Objective) prior to reading this book.  This story starts several years after the end of Book 1, but builds on a lot of the knowledge gained and the back story from during Book 1.It turns out that the treasure discovered in Book 1 requires a codex in order to decipher it, and the codex requires keys to open the secret location of the codex.  The keys were dispersed to make it difficult for the codex to be found, so now the keys have to all be recovered AND they have to figure out where the storage location is at AND figure out how to use the keys.  ~lol~  All that while once again braving traps that made the ones in the lighthouse of Book 1 look like child's play; running into old enemies; running into 2 or more **new** sets of old societies wanting either the same items or wanting them not found; plus the unfortunate losses at different times of central characters.  The twists keep coming until you swear you're on a high-speed rollercoaster - each twist reveals yet more of the story and ties in with some other themes that didn't seem to be connected.