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New Orleans, January, the forty-eighth year of the Kurian Order: Formerly glorious in its decay, under the New Order the city transformed from an aging beauty into a waterlogged corpse. Read the first page
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As always, the author plunges you into a world similar to our own, but darker, more desperate. I'm not going to tell you what happens, just that we continue to follow David Valentine and his struggle against the Kurian's, and against the memories of his past that haunt him. In fact, it is the strength of the author's creation of Valentine that has kept me coming back for more. He truly is the reluctant hero, and so much more.
Yet again Valentine meets a whole new array of people while on a mission to find a rumoured weapon that can defeat the Reapers. And there's no doubt that the strength of the story comes from the intriguing characters.
I do feel that there isn't as much action in this book as we have previously seen, but at the same time, the desire to know more will keep you flicking those pages.
In short, not as good as the first, or the second book, but damn good all the same! There's a forth book around the corner; "Valentine's Rising," and I'll be eagerly awaiting the arrival of that just to follow Valentine's wayward path towards freedom.
The story is set in a post apocolypse world run by aliens who feed like vampires. So the story mixes the horror/SF/post apocolypse genres to come up with a new take on all three.
The central character, David Valentine, is an enhanced soldier with exceptional abilities. However the character is not some one brain cell grunt, you get a real sense of a thinking soldier who constantly questions his motives and actions and this struggle makes him very interesting to read. The supporting characters are well written too.
The book is action packed but it is never at the expense of character development or the story. Although I enjoyed the first two books this one really seems to take this series to a whole new level.
I am looking foward to the next one
There were times in this story where goosebumps flashed across my skin. Other places where a lump came into my throat and still others, where I laughed out loud. What I loved most though, I think, are the supporting characters in this book. I grew very attached to some, like Ahn-Kah the 'golden one' and the half-drunk sailor who showed his true metal when the stakes were down. Tale of the Thunderbolt is chuck full of amazing characters. Some good, some bad and others who walk that gray line in between. That's the sort of thing I like to have in my stories.
If you dig fast paced action, suspense and gut-wrenching emotion...you'll dig this book.
Basically Valentine has spent a year on a secret mission as a Cat to secure a strong enough ship to obtain a secret weapon to fight the Kur. Somehow the knowledge of this "secret weapon" had only landed in the revolutionaries laps recently. The weapon is located in Haiti and Valintine doesn't even know what it is, only that the "contact" whom never saw him before in his life would recognize him and contact him. Strange? Well, it was. This was only one of many loose strings throughout the story.
What I missed most about Knights writing was the incredible development of characters and realtionships with these characters. I didn't see any this time. Valentine takes up a bit of a romance in Jamaca, but if I was suppose to feel sorry for him for having to move on, well, I really didn't even know this new character well enough to even care.
Overall, I still enjoy this series and plan to continue reading them. I'm hoping the next one, Valentine's Rising, will pick back up where the first two left off.
Happy reading!
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