Prompted by a voice that lives in her blood, the fearsome warrior known as Alicia of Blades is drawn towards to one of the great cities of The Time Before. The ruined city of New York. Ruined but not empty. For this is the final refuge of Zero, the first and last of The Twelve. The one who must be destroyed if mankind is to have a future.
What she finds is not what she's expecting.
A journey into the past.
To find out how it all began.
And an opponent at once deadlier and more human than she could ever have imagined.
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[Rain was falling when Alicia approached the city]***
(@orionbooks, 16 June 2016, 598 pages, hardback, bought from @AmazonUK)
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I feel I didn't enjoy this book as much as I could have. That's on me and has nothing to do with the author or book. I read the first book in this trilogy, The Passage when it first came out and loved the TV series. I waited so long to read The Twelve I felt so-so about it and could barely remember The Passage. This book has a similar fate. The books were released years apart, not the best and I don't remember what happened in the previous books. It also doesn't help that I waited so long after publication to read this. It took ages to get into the book because I couldn't remember much about The Passage or The Twelve but started to enjoy it once I had a decent thread of the storyline. This is a good end to the trilogy, the author returns to the events so long ago that devastated the world with Zero, the first viral who created them all, a scientist once known as Fanning, a devastating whirlpool threatening all. I plan to read the trilogy again someday as I feel something was lost reading the books so far apart.
