And things build to a crescendo as the Grandfather (you might remember him from the first book, Green Eyed Monster) and his enemy make their appearances.Īfter all the tension from the previous books, I was so glad that there was an ending! I finally found out what's going on in Twilight falls. There are flashbacks back and forth, as the reader finds out more about Adrian's conception and more about Feldman, who was featured quite prominently in Negative Space.

This is when the story just stops being a murder mystery and gets really weird. And when The Surgeon strikes again, Adrian and the cop in charge of the case, Derek Adams, head to Twilight Falls to try and get some clues. He's somehow attuned into some sort of network.

There's a serial killer called The Surgeon on the loose, and apparently, only a guy called Adrian Foster can possibly stop him. Thanks to the publisher for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!Īlright, like I said, I started on Waking Gods immediately after I finished Negative Space, and I'm done! This is the third in the series, and it is even stranger than the other two. I haven't always enjoyed reading it, but I think in a while I will look back and be glad I did. While this trilogy certainly is unlike anything really that I've read before, and some of the ideas and writings were truly great, I look back at the series with some mixed feelings. The story, at times, gets drowned in those references. There is not a single character who is not affected by Smith's and Becker's books, and a lot of other things, which I won't mention so I don't spoil everything, get a lot of attention as well, even if it doesn't always make sense. I mean, I understand it all takes place in the same town and universe, and I can believe some reference, but it was too much. This might have been due to the extensive time-hopping, which made it at times unclear as to who we were following and where it fit together with the rest of the story.īesides, I got really annoyed by all the references to the earlier stories. I was completely prepared for something that was different, strange and chaotic, and while the story certainly had all that (I don't necessarily mean those things in a bad way though) I never got into the story. I also wasn't completely sure what to expect of Waking Gods as the previous two books were quite different from each other. In my review of The Green-Eyed Monster I stated I would like to have some more closure on the whole Martin Smith and John Becker thing.

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