This book could have been epic: the grand climax (almost) of a battle between good and evil. Instead, it's just okay. More than half of the book deals with the imprisonment and torture of one of the main characters and the corresponding rescue effort. The rest gets into the war - Carpathia summons the full strength of the Global Community to eradicate those who oppose him: mostly Christians but several Jews and a few other rebels. Time is running out!
What makes this book better than the past few is the fact that the authors take risks in this book. Multiple characters die, including one major character before the last chapter (in which the war culminates). There's actually a bit of excitement built up surrounding the war, and for the first time in the series since book 3 or 4, I'm actually a little bit anxious to see what happens in the next and final book. I know generally what will happen but not exactly how.
Still, though, the book is fairly poorly written. The characters still yearn way too much for violence and shooting guns, not to mention they still aren't well developed despite 12 books and about 4000 pages of writing.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars (comes close to capturing the excitement of the first few books)
29 books, 121 days...at this rate I'll read 87 books
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