The Final Cut
The Infection, Book 3
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The Final Cut
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Garrett Michael Brown
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Craig DiLouie
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Infection turned the world into a slaughterhouse. Months later, America is exhausted and dying, its military stalled in the fight to save what’s left.
In the ruins of a West Virginia town, a band of survivors count their losses, after a horrific battle to secure a pure sample of Infection. Their destination: “Fort Doom”, USAMRIID, the Army’s germ warfare laboratory, which is under siege.
With humanity facing the possibility of extinction, the Army wants to use the sample to build a doomsday weapon against Infection. One scientist hopes to control Infection; another believes she can cure it. And, outside the fort’s walls, a lone survivor offers a new way to survive what’s coming. Each will choose how far they’ll go to survive, and what they’re willing to lose to save humanity.
In The Final Cut, Craig DiLouie’s brutal vision of the apocalypse concludes with a revelation of the final mysteries of Infection. Will humanity survive the end of days?
©2021 Craig DiLouie (P)2022 Craig DiLouie
That is why I gave it more stars for the general score than for the plot.
If this would have been the first or second book in a series, I would not have been very happy with it, to be honest, but that surely is also due to my personal taste and preferences, more so that due to the objective quality of the book.
I would say it is a objective fact though, that the big showdown action piece is considerably shorter, less spectacular and less engaging than the ones in the first two books.
The narrator does an OK job overall, but I got the feeling that he sometimes just didn't convey the right emotions. For example, one of the main characters of the series is going through a lot of grief and thinking about going out in a blaze of glory, but the narrator makes him sound strangely flat, emotionless and robotic throughout the whole audiobook.
I don't know, maybe that is the direction he was given, but it felt off to me.
There also where a few moments where characters were supposed to be shouting, or be angry and the narrator just gave them a conversational tone.
People who have been following the series won't feel short changed by this final installment, I think, but it did feel a bit utilitarian to me, in the sense of being specifically designed to achieve that effect and not much more.
A decent ending to a very good series is rare. Even the most acclaimed authors struggle with that (See Stephen King's Dark Tower series.), which is why it deserves a 4 star overall score, in my opinion.
A satisfying end to the trilogy
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