The one impossible labyrinth by Matthew Reilly

Yeap, definitely a new fan of Matthew Reilly. I will be missing in action over the next couple of months reading more of his books. Matthew Reilly is the internationally bestselling author of the Scarecrow series, the Jack West series. His books are published in over 20 languages with worldwide sales of over 7 million copies.

Big bonus that he is an Aussie.

The final book in Matthew Reilly’s, Jack West Jr. series starts with a bang! It picks up where The Two Lost Mountains book finishes. Don’t let this scare you from reading due to being book 7. I have never read any of the series and quite enjoyed reading this book on its own. A few times I scratched my head thinking what has happened in previous books but the story was easy to follow and hard to put down because I wanted to know what was going to happen next. When I finish this review I’m definitely going to start the series from the start.

The One Impossible Labyrinth starts with Jack (a humble Aussie Hero) and his crew racing down a heavily booby-trapped tunnel when a small red figure falls from the ceiling and starts trying to bite his face off. Oh what a way to start a book, straight into action that doesn’t stop till the end. Jack and his crew are on a mission to save the universe from The Omega Effect which is only three days away. Just like in Indiana Jones movies, Jack and his crew are running behind in the mission with another four teams in front of them chasing the same goal while leaving booby traps and hurdles behind to stop Jack. Yes, this book reminded me of Indy and also another favourite series of mine Dan Brown’s, Robert Longdon series with The Da Vinci Code. Action packed adventure involving history and mythology trying to solve puzzles to get to the prize and saving the world.

Jack’s team is split into several groups with their own adventure around the world on the same mission. This book is mainly focused on Jack with the other stories mentioned in-between.

I can’t say too much about the story line because of spoilers but I love how Reilly managed to use real today places and historical ones and also putting a spin on mythology as we know it to come up with amazing story to saving the world from THE OMEGA EFFECT, while also using the importance of family and friends of all kinds.  

If you love good against evil, heart stopping moments, tense battles, epic puzzles to solve and way over the top action this is definitely the book or series to read. And definitely for adults or mature readers.

Themes: Action, History, Mythology.

Maria Komninos