As father and son move towards a possibly fateful reconciliation, Fet uses his new found academic drive to make the moves necessary to bring the game between Vampires and humans to a most explosive endgame. This grooming process is carried out through blood bonding to treat the young boy’s asthma as well as a new life of spoiled privilege that changes Zach’s outlook on humanity and life itself. Meanwhile, The Master is grooming Eph’s beloved son, Zachery (who, as we know, was abducted by Eph’s vamped out ex-wife at the end of The Fall), into his new vessel.
Yes, Setrakian’s favored exterminator is now not only the wiser looking man in the room, he’s shacking up with Nora (whom Eph was still rather sweet on, but began to become distant towards). It’s not going to be easy though as Eph’s leadership is called into question (thanks to a newly formed dependency on drugs and alcohol) and the rise of one Vasilly Fet. And all that stand in the way of the complete domination of humanity is Goodweather and his team. Blood farms, required donations, enforced curfews, re-runs, and B-Positive breeding programs are the way of the world.
Sunlight is precious and scarce, and thanks to The Stoneheart Group’s sleeper infrastructure taking power, humans are now a harvested quantity. Ephraim “Eph” Goodweather and his band of vampire slayers, the world was nuked to shit. After reading this book, the term retains its full relevance, and dares modern horror writers to follow in their footsteps. That is, until Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan wrote the concluding chapter to their Strain Trilogy, The Night Eternal. It used to mean something so epic and awesome that only the Good Book itself could have dreamed it, but over time its basically become the new “Epic”.
That said, it’s time to resurrect the phrase, “It’s gonna be Biblical”. It’s because of people like this that I am a literary addict of the highest regard.)Ī warning before we proceed, there are obvious spoilers to The Strain and The Fall in this review, so read those two beforehand or proceed with caution. (Many thanks to the fine people at Harper Collins, specifically Shawn Nicholls, for providing me with an Advanced Reader Copy of the book I’m about to review.
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