To fully appreciate and enjoy this trilogy, I strongly recommend reading these books in order. First there is Caught in a Moment and then Worm Winds of Zanzibar.
If you haven’t read them yet, to prevent being spoiled – don’t read this review! Instead, click on those titles to begin reading about Alex Trueman’s adventures!
I’m trusting that the only bibliophiles still reading are caught up with the series…
Returning to normalcy is not as easy as you’d think.
Not for Alex.
After first spending a horrific, mind-bending time in the time-frozen world of Intersticia and then an alternate version of Zanzibar, not to mention the angelic realm of Elysium, normalcy is, well, boring…
Plus, he’s been encouraged to cease using his abilities.
While his friends adapt back to their reality, Alex struggles – and eventually gets involved with a mysterious, fascinating archangel named Nathaniel.
Where the other archangels have forbidden Alex from using his powers, Nathaniel is helping him to hone them.
Before he knows it, Alex is spending almost all of his time with Nathaniel and learning captivating things.
However, it is this very friendship that may risk the survival of their world…
Oh my!!!
Angelic Upstart was… WOW!
Initially I was irritated with Alex – some decisions he makes early on are rather poor and thoughtless – yet also based in a psychologically understandable place.
But when the elements of the plot come together – oh my gosh this is a HORROR STORY!!!
Without giving anything away, I will say that Angelic Upstart is a very effective, disturbing, mesmerizing, thought-provoking novel that keeps going where you don’t think it will go. Martin Dukes doesn’t hold back the punches here, people!
A captivating, twisty, dark, intelligent final entry – terrible, terrible things happen in Angelic Upstart. It features what may be on the most psychotic, terrifying villains I’ve ever read!
It’s a hefty book full of character development, suspense and a fully rounded plot that left me feeling that it all worked together from book one to book three – this is an epic feeling novel!
And when those last few pages were completed I was left with goose bumps! It was not an expected, predictable end – it surprised and touched me!
Angelic Upstart is a memorable conclusion to an imaginative, sharp trilogy that will most certainly be re-read!
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