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Austin Campbell
, December 27, 2012
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With the heart-pounding excitement through and through the 3rd book, and especially the shocking cliffhanger, the chance of the 4th book to better the last was slim, very slim. As a standalone novel, Son of Perdition (book #3) holds up, as in, you could read it first in the series and not be too lost on the story.
The major difference between this book is that you MUST read the book before it or you will lose so much buildup and context. So as a standalone adventure, this one doesn't have it's own legs, but instead it has wings! Because the last book was building so much this one flies twice as fast and is twice as exciting.
At the opener, we are finally given closure to the aforementioned cliffhanger. The subsequent chapters give you a small breather before the rest of the book pulls you into a nefarious plot of world domination by the Antichrist his notorious Mark of the Beast. That is where this story takes a major turn. Instead of being your run-of-the-mill end times story, Alec puts an outlandish spin on the Mark, but thanks to some foreshadowing--even as far back as book #1--this idea works. I can't imagine it going any other way in the story that she has crafted. Where will the 5th book go from here? Thanks to another terribly awesome ending, the wait is absolute torture. I am pulling my hair at the thought of waiting more than a year to see what happens next.
Wendy Alec not only outdoes herself in this 4th installment, but she sets the bar so high that only a Higher Power can impart the wisdom to top this one!
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