In the last two books of the Alex Verus series the excitement really ramps up. Alex started as a mild and meek kind of character who tried to do the right thing but kept getting caught up in things that pushed him into dangerous and morally questionable scenarios. I often felt like he was constantly tossed about in a storm not of his own making, but after advice from his lovely spider friend to pick a side, he, in these final books, finally decides to take charge.
His beloved Anne is possessed by a Djinn intent to destroy humans and everyone is tying to kill her to stop it. Alex has to try and save her – not an easy task. Meanwhile he is also being influenced by the artificial hand imbued item that is giving him amazing power but also threatening to take over his whole body which would probably kill him.
I have complained in my reviews of this series so far that I get bored by all the action and fighting, and there was action and fighting in these last two books, but somehow I think the climactic endgame nature of the battles made them necessary and therefore they annoyed me less (hardly at all!).
I did like the ending, how everything was wrapped up and I almost felt sorry that the series was over (I had previously thought that I would see it through, but would be kind of glad to see the end).
I read the author’s note at the end of the final book, and how happy he was to have the whole series published after he had such a hard time with rejections when he was starting out as a writer, which made me like the writer more 🙂
Sarah Wray Writer 