Andrew’s Wizardly Reads 13.4K subscribers · May 18, 2026

Small Books, Big Impact: My Weekly Reading Wrap-Up

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Liked

I really liked the beginning, and I really liked the ending of this. I not recommend you treat it as a prequel. I would instead read it after Bloodstones cuz there are some spoilers that kind of are talked about here within the Bloodstones that if you then read the Bloodstones won't be a surprise anymore.

Loved

But, anyway, this is a masterpiece. This kind of caught me off guard. I actually cried a little bit at the end of this because when King was writing as Richard Bachman, he was taking on a more bleak, more hopeless sort of tone with his stories.

Liked

I am about 40% of the way through this book. I'm enjoying it. What I thought was really cool is this is probably my third time reading this, and it's the first time I've noticed that Steve Berry calls out James Rollins, and basically makes Sigma Force a part of his world as well.