Supposedly the finale (15th) Repairman Jack series, but I did not see things resolved, even after a gratuitous foreword by author F. Paul Wilson. Seems like I will have to read the "updated" version of Nightworld, where Jack's role was significantly increased. Dawn Pickering is searching for her supposedly deceased baby, tracking the monstrosity to a home on the East End of Long Island. Meanwhile Jack finally persuades Glaeken and the Lady to allow him to take the fight to Rasalom, buying an unparalled arsenal from Abe, which almost works. ( )

Well, I didn't see some of that coming. I should have, but I didn't. I still feel like a lot of the stuff from Jack's past is being shoehorned into the present. I mean, considering all the weird shit that supposedly happened to Jack as a kid, I'm surprised he was so resistant to the weirdness he encountered as an adult. Whatevs. We're almost done now. Time to read about the end of the world... ( )

Can't say much without spoilers, but IMO there were too many improbabilities (including massive stupidity of one or two of the characters, again) just to bring us to the end the way it was pre-conceived. I can't wait to read the new Nightworld, though. The description reminds me of the ending of Angel TV show and the subsequent comic, where LA gets sent to Hell- that was great stuff. ( )

This is the last Repairman Jack book. I hesitate to call it a novel, since for the past six or seven books, the RJ saga resembles less a series of novels and more a continuing saga, each book ending in a cliffhanger. This book ends in a cliffhanger, too, and the saga will dovetail into Wilson's "Adversary Cycle". The final book of the Adversary Cycle came out in 1992, but a new revision of it will be coming out in a few months, and will cap the storylines.

Repaiman Jack is a resourceful guy who lives off the grid: no last name, no social security number, no legal existence. He's kind of a freelance vigilante, helping out people who are being conned or threatened. Often in his adventures, he takes on paranormal threats, all related to "The Otherness", an interdimensional, Lovecraftian wellspring of horror that wants to take over our dimension. The Otherness is inimical to life as we know it. Jack gradually comes to realize that he's being groomed as Earth's champion against The Otherness. So what starts out as a more earthbound story about a kickass vigilante becomes a high stakes existential horror/adventure story.

The books in the series run the gamut from excellent to so-so, but the series as a whole is very much worth reading, and this volume is a page turner of nail-biting suspense. My advice? Start with "The Tomb" and move on from there. ( )

The last Repairman Jack book. It is like saying goodbye to an old friend. 15 books is quite an investment between the author and the reader. True, Jack will make an appearance in next years finale to the Adversary Cycle (NightWorld) and will also appear in some prequels. Was it a fitting finish? Hard to say. I am still trying to decide. There were parts I liked as well as some I didn't. I guess I can say that about the whole series. Especially the last several books, some of which almost seemed like throwaways, as the story slowly moved along with little actually happening. Maybe having originally written the Adversary Cycle years ago and now having to merge the Repairman Jack books into the Secret History of the World mythology was not the best idea? I did not read the Adversary books as written originally except for the first two so don't know how many changes there are between them and the revised versions. I will be reading the heavily revised Nightworld though to see how the story finally does end. What I wonder though is it because I truly want to know or is it that after 15 books in this series and 4 others from the Adversary Cycle (the Tomb is in both series so I only counted it once) I just want closure without caring how it actually ends? Only time will tell. ( )