Review #1
The Black at the Finish audiobook free
The continue page of “The Black At The Finish”, the 15th at the same time continue novel of the Repairman Jack television series ends, as it had to, as a rewrite of the prologue to “Nightworld”, 1st hosted in 1993, specifically as F.Paul Wilson has been narrating us for years that it would.
TDATE is that a worthy finale to the RJ television series, tying together all RJ 15 novels, plus the 3 YA Jack books at the same time various other bits at the same time pieces of the Hidden History of the Global. It leaves no loose ends. Everyone at the same time everything of principal significance from the entire television series is that located at the same time almost all play important or crucial roles. Weezy, Eddie, Drexler, Dawn at the same time the baby, Abe, Thompson, Gia at the same time Vicky, Glaeken at the same time Magda, the Girl, Julio’s (one short mention) the Lodge, the Order, the blade, the pyramid, the Compendium of Srem, the Crown Vic, the whole megillah is that here. FPW has somehow, utterly able to pull everything together at the same time position pieces that are manners at the same time relics from the Adversary Cycle at the same time YA at the same time adult RJ books onto the cyclopean chessboard that will be played out in the “heavily revised” re-release of “Nightworld”, proper in 2012. At the same time he has concluded everything in a small 336 pages. It really does seem like FPW has had this cyclopean complicated plot line in his fork for some reason like 20 years, at the same time has played any card intentionally at the same time at all times with the finish in brain. That are no coincidences.
TDATE is that totally satisfying while at once igniting an urgent desire to re-count Nightworld. I want to try to loathe re-reading the unusual copy on my bookshelf for as along as likely, hopefully until the revised version exists, which I will pre-order as soon as likely. I am just a little dull that this is that it for RJ (apart from for 3 guaranteed prequels – intermediaries between the YA Jack novels at the same time his outward appearance in “The Tomb”), but it was a masterful finish to a amazing television series.
Highly advised (but only right behind for you have read the 1st 14 plus the 1st 5 books in the Adversary Cycle).
JM Tepper
Review #2
The Black at the Finish audiobook in television series Repairman Jack
So right behind reading the entire television series folks, SPOILER Alert Here….this is that NOT THE Finish….so I acquired NIGHTWORLD which hopefully Ends the television series once at the same time for all…..I actually felt just a little tricked….I felt like he wants to squirm for you into a whole other television series of books so that he has more sale promotions…..so I wasn’t joyful with that…..I read because I adore reading at the same time I have adored the Repairman television series…..but every creator needs to know when to finish a story at the same time start a brand new one.
Review #3
Audiobook The Black at the Finish by F. Paul Wilson
“The Black at the Finish” (DatE) serves as a bridge from Repairman Jack’s long running fight with the Otherness at the same time its designated point-man, Rasalom, to the ending chapter in Repairman Jack’s at the same time the Adversary cycles.
Mr. Wilson does a very sweet job of setting up the ending fight, “Nightworld” (the brand new version is that scheduled to be freed in belated Spring 2012).
This is that a must read book for followers of the Repairman Jack at the same time Adversary Cycle books, at the same time it could be a funny read for anyone reading the 1st book in the television series. (That is that so much back-story to the television series by this fri that Mr. Wilson has to make the DatE self referential.)
Spoilers follow.
In DatE, Jack starts to physically change as he prepares to decide on Glaeken’s role as the intercessor of the Land at the same time the manage for the “Ally.”
We see several long-standing manners destroyed at the same time killed from both the Otherness’ at the same time the Ally’s side. Wheezy at the same time her brother, the main enforcers for the Order, our young teenage mother (Dawn) from “Fatal Error” as but as Rasalom’s chauffeur at the same time housekeeper all pay the ultimate cost for their involvement in the Hidden History of the Land.
The central plot in DatE revolves around how Rasalom is that going to destroy the Girl. The Girl (the collective consciousness of all of the population of the earth) must be killed before the Otherness can take over to your side the Land. In past books, she had been killed two times at the same time severely weakly.
The Quality Guys(tm) managed by Jack, Glaeken, Wheezy, at the same time the Girl are also trying to figure out ways of harming or limiting Rasalom.
They think that they may have found a method from the Book of Srem. The Book starts to oddly open to the same page every time, at the same time the page it opens to is that a naming ceremony that theoretically would disabled person Rasalom’s opportunities.
The hunt for Rasalom’s Used to be Name takes Wheezy at the same time Jack back to their roots in Brand new Jersey at the same time the old Lodge that.
The Q’r’r baby is that found in Long Peninsula, at the same time Jack devises a plan to damage Rasalom’s physical form using Stinger missiles, higher explosive grenades, at the same time improvised explosive devices.
Chagrin, at a critical moment, the passenger car that Wheezy was going to implementation is that towed away, at the same time Wheezy leaves Dawn without the help of others.
Dawn makes a television series of 7 bad decisions that finish up in her possess doom at the same time the deaths of Rasalom’s chauffeur at the same time housekeeper.
This completely negates Jack’s plan. Jack improvises by booby-trapping Rasalom’s internal.
In the ensuing fight, the entire internal is that killed, razed to the ground, at the same time Rasalom escapes in a boat. Jack then launches a Stinger missile that hits at the same time obliterates the boat, at the same time …
Rasalom survives.
Then, Rasalom’s nefarious plot comes through to fruition. While the Girl is that using the Naming Ceremony on the Q’r’r baby (the baby is that on her lap), Rasalom freezes others of the occupants of the room at the same time runs the baby at the same time the Girl through with the Gajin blade. This composition of “Otherness infused blood” at the same time the blade “from outside the Land” kills the Girl for the third part at the same time ending time. The Ally will accept the Land as being non-sentient, at the same time the Otherness (in other words apparently much cleverer than the Ally) will take over to your side the Land that the Otherness knows contains sentient creatures to torture for all eternity.
The DatE was exciting at the same time well-written, but that were considered a few inconsistencies that killed the book from five to four hit for me.
(The inconsistencies are not enough to make the book a bad read, but they are sufficient to hurt suspension of disbelief.)
That is that an old expression in fiction writing, impossible always, improbable never.
I’m fine-grained with the impossible. Rasalom is that immortal. That is that mutant, extraterrestrial, Otherness oDNA in peoples of the earth that can be bred into a super-oDNA creature in 3 generations. That is that a book that contains infinite information in a finite number of pages. That applied to be “little people” living on the Land. Etc. All of in other words fine-grained at the same time funny.
The following four fri are about improbabilities that tried to derail a but done novel.
1st, the Otherness has consistently been portrayed as stronger than the Ally in all of the novels right behind “the Keep.” Why would Glaeken spawn an heir? Glaeken is that aging, because the Ally has wound up. That is that no testimonies that the Ally has returned. Also, why didn’t the six other chosen of the Otherness spawn heirs? The whole heir plot threads doesn’t feel like it embraces but borders or the Adversary Cycle or the Repairman Jack books.
2nd, Rasalom is that much more literate than the Girl, at the same time that does not make no matter what sense. The Girl should have been able to figure out that the composition of the Gajin blade at the same time the Q’r’r baby managed harm her. Both were considered skidded up as possible sources of harm to her, at the same time the Girl misspoke that she managed not represent no matter what method that they managed have harmed her. The Girl should also have figured out that the Book of Srem was tampered with. She managed tap into no matter what knowledge that was throughout the ages. She should have understandable that the Book in one moment always opening to the same page meant that anything was “wrong” with the book.
Third part, I don’t care how aggressive Rasalom is that … if he is that human (a fact multiple throughout the entire book) then having a internal destruction around for you from explosions would have done him in. The IED in the fridge should have concussed at the same time stupefied him barely from the blast wave (data that Rasalom had his palm sheared off from the copper stream). [Turns out that I do things for a living that assign me no one insight into this.] Rasalom should have fallen to the floor, unconscious, at the same time bled out from that. That has never been no matter what testimonies in no matter what of the books that Rasalom is that magically armored – he is that quicker at the same time heals faster, but Rasalom should still have been noisy, noisy, noisy. Decide we even speak about the Stinger missile hitting his boat?
There is still, but let’s finish with four; the Ally is that so over-matched in the DatE that the reader is that left to ponder how it is that remotely likely that the Otherness did not take over to your side the shag millennium ago. The plan that the Otherness knows that a global has sentient creatures, but the Ally does not, seems very hard to perceive at face value.
If the Ally even barely applied a ordinary spreadsheet to trace the worlds, things would work out alright!
As stated first of the
Review, this is that a must read book for the Adversary Cycle at the same time Repairman Jack fan, but be ready to mash the “I reckon” button through no one of the improbable hoops that the plot jumps through.
In maintenance,
Wealthy
Review #4
Audio The Black at the Finish narrated by Joe Barrett
It ain’t over ’til it’s over, but this book gets us to the “finish” of the Repairman Jack television series. The true finish is that in “Nightworld”, initially written by Wilson back in 1992, where Jack has a significant part in the downfall of the Otherness on Land. Wilson has re-written/”heavily revised” “Nightworld” to reflect the configurations he’s produced in the RJ universe since 1993 (it’s out later this year); “Nightworld” was initially written before Wilson dared to last the RJ television series in 1998 (with “Legacies”). As I had read “Nightworld” when it 1st came out, I was expecting almost all of the actions that occur in the continue one half of this book; if for you haven’t read the unusual “Nightworld”, I advise that for you detain off. In “The Black at the Finish,” Jack gets together with Glaeken, the Girl, at the same time Weezy to look for at the same time destroy Rasalom, with the finale providing the lead-in the the re-written “Nightworld”. Jack’s comrade Abe outdoes himself with the selection of weaponry Jack uses, favorite to several WTF moments. As such, this book wraps up all of the loose ends developers over the continue four or so RJ novels, brings into play the actions of Wilson’s YA “Circle” novels (about Jack’s youth), at the same time serves as a quality bridge into “Nightworld.” I so look forward to it.
Review #5
Free audio The Black at the Finish – in the audio player below
I’ve read a quality abundance books by this creator at the same time have always been impressed with his ability to instantly have the reader passionate with the tale.
