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The Rift #3
Death Springs Eternal
The sun rises from its slumber, melting away the winter's snow and bathing the barren land with light. The survivors once more begin their journey, braving the hordes of wandering undead, heading south for what they hope will be safer shores.
But an old threat has risen from the bowels of humanity, standing in the way of any hope for salvation. As those who remain soon learn, in a world of chaos, zombies are the least of their worries.
But an old threat has risen from the bowels of humanity, standing in the way of any hope for salvation. As those who remain soon learn, in a world of chaos, zombies are the least of their worries.
348 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 27, 2011
About the author
Robert J. Duperre
29 books140 followersMy name is Robert Duperre, and I live in the middle of Connecticut with my artist wife, who's far too good for me, and a rambunctious mutt of a dog. As a lover of romance, cosmic horror, fantasy, and science fiction, I'm a writer who can't seem to stick in any particular genre. The only true constant is that I write what I'd want to read.
I've published more than a dozen novels and two short story collections. Included in my work is the 4-book post-apocalyptic series The Rift, the 5-book urban fantasy series The Infinity Trials, and the 3-part dark fantasy series The Breaking World (written with David Dalglish), along with the one-shot science fiction novel Silas, among a few others.
I've published more than a dozen novels and two short story collections. Included in my work is the 4-book post-apocalyptic series The Rift, the 5-book urban fantasy series The Infinity Trials, and the 3-part dark fantasy series The Breaking World (written with David Dalglish), along with the one-shot science fiction novel Silas, among a few others.
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February 7, 2012
First of all I just have to say that this was by far my favorite book of the series! Robert Duperre has really found his voice with this book and the writing is air tight. He paints a believable, albeit harsh, picture of the world around his characters that will leave you having nightmares.
It's been six months since the Rodent Flu brought the wraiths, zombies, and the end of the world. Six months in a world filled with not life, but death, carnage, and the undead. Six months is a long time to live when you indeed are still a breathing human being in this world after the end. In this world without hope...but that's all changing. The snow is melting off the trees, the birds are starting to chirp, and the undead and starting to drop. Could this be the beginning of something better? Could there be hope for a new world after all.
Josh, Krya, and the gang are still wandering trying to make it across the US. Hoping that once they make it south life will be better. Or that there will be life of any kind to speak of. Moving around has become easier as the undead seem to be dying a true death this time. Still their journey is anything but easy. I love the relationship between Josh & Kyra. Of course that isn't the first time you've heard me say that, but it's true. Their love is raw and unwavering even though at times it's hard to see. Even more so I love how Josh seems to grow in this book. Opening up more to Kyra and the people around him. It makes that love even more apparent.
Then of course we still have Corky and the boys. They also are moving south. In hopes of another place to hide out. Maybe even more living people. With Horace's declining heath and the some other bad circumstances things aren't going well for this group, still they are my second favorite set of characters of this series. And throughout it all there is a glimmer of hope here with them as well.
It seems as the undead fall the hope rises...If only it were that easy. While half of this book is about surviving, and hope; the other half of this book is the opposite of hope. In fact it's the place where hope goes to die. Anything good is swallowed whole here. I'm talking about the SNF army that has built up the city of Richmond. But it's how they are building it that kills the hope. The racism in this city astounds me. It physically makes me sick most of the time. I would take the zombies over these senseless hicks any day. In a time when humanity needs to band together to rise above the undead, and the government has fallen, these bastards have reverted to killing not only the zombies but anyone who isn't the right color. While I it pisses me off to no end, I can totally see this happening in real life, and that's sad.
Overall this is a book that will make you love, cry, scream, possible pee your pants from fear, and feel an anger like you've never known a book could do. Robert Duperre as not only given us a series of great horror novels, but with a journey and an ending that will leave you gasping he has painted a living breathing nightmare that will leave you wondering just who are the real monsters? I can't wait to read the last book in this series...and I'm a little scared to all at the same time.
It's been six months since the Rodent Flu brought the wraiths, zombies, and the end of the world. Six months in a world filled with not life, but death, carnage, and the undead. Six months is a long time to live when you indeed are still a breathing human being in this world after the end. In this world without hope...but that's all changing. The snow is melting off the trees, the birds are starting to chirp, and the undead and starting to drop. Could this be the beginning of something better? Could there be hope for a new world after all.
Josh, Krya, and the gang are still wandering trying to make it across the US. Hoping that once they make it south life will be better. Or that there will be life of any kind to speak of. Moving around has become easier as the undead seem to be dying a true death this time. Still their journey is anything but easy. I love the relationship between Josh & Kyra. Of course that isn't the first time you've heard me say that, but it's true. Their love is raw and unwavering even though at times it's hard to see. Even more so I love how Josh seems to grow in this book. Opening up more to Kyra and the people around him. It makes that love even more apparent.
Then of course we still have Corky and the boys. They also are moving south. In hopes of another place to hide out. Maybe even more living people. With Horace's declining heath and the some other bad circumstances things aren't going well for this group, still they are my second favorite set of characters of this series. And throughout it all there is a glimmer of hope here with them as well.
It seems as the undead fall the hope rises...If only it were that easy. While half of this book is about surviving, and hope; the other half of this book is the opposite of hope. In fact it's the place where hope goes to die. Anything good is swallowed whole here. I'm talking about the SNF army that has built up the city of Richmond. But it's how they are building it that kills the hope. The racism in this city astounds me. It physically makes me sick most of the time. I would take the zombies over these senseless hicks any day. In a time when humanity needs to band together to rise above the undead, and the government has fallen, these bastards have reverted to killing not only the zombies but anyone who isn't the right color. While I it pisses me off to no end, I can totally see this happening in real life, and that's sad.
Overall this is a book that will make you love, cry, scream, possible pee your pants from fear, and feel an anger like you've never known a book could do. Robert Duperre as not only given us a series of great horror novels, but with a journey and an ending that will leave you gasping he has painted a living breathing nightmare that will leave you wondering just who are the real monsters? I can't wait to read the last book in this series...and I'm a little scared to all at the same time.
January 3, 2012
Let me just start this review by saying this book absolutely blew me away.
I am, admittedly, a huge fan of Robert Duperre's work. I love the way he stretches the genre of horror to be so much more than the sum of it's parts. Like so many master authors before him, Robert Duperre has the ability to develop full, rich characters with brilliant abilities and realistic flaws, he puts them in completely fleshed out scenery and amidst events dramatic on global and personal scales and he makes the reader connect in a viseral, emotional way.
The first two books in this series bring you to the point where life is not easy for these characters. The world as we know it has completely fallen apart. Those few who survived the horror begin to band together but are met time and again by obstacles, be they monsters or the aftermath. Still, humans have the inherant ability to move on, in the toughest circumstances, against the harshest of odds. And such is the case with these characters.
I loved the way Macy grew in this book, learning to trust herself and find love, making mistakes along the way. Josh too deepens his connection with Kyra, his long time love and the woman carrying his child. But the characters I was most fascinated by were those who had aligned themselves with evil.
There's Tom Steinberg, the former Speaker of the House, to start with. He's been around since The Fall, but in the first two books he was so controlled by Sam, the not-quite-a-real-man with the evil plan, that I didn't really connect with him. But Tom starts to question Sam in this book, pushing back as he remembers the things that are important to him: his wife and daughter. The struggle Tom endures to save his own soul becomes a prominent story line in this book.
We also meet the not-so-altruistic portions of the human race. General Bathgate and his toady, Cody Jackson, are some of the most dispicable characters I have ever come across in fiction, and I found them fascinating. The issues that roil within their psyche's are profound and deep. I am definitely looking forward to seeing what insanity they engage in and incite in the next and final book, The Summer Son!
I have but one warning for this book: the cliff-hanger just might kill you. But honestly, it's just so worth it!!!
Bottom Line
Watch out! Robert Duperre will have you cringing, crying and desperate to see the anguish these characters are mired in stop. But the one thing you won't be doing, is putting this book down, because I know, like me, you won't be able to stop until you've savored every last word!
I am, admittedly, a huge fan of Robert Duperre's work. I love the way he stretches the genre of horror to be so much more than the sum of it's parts. Like so many master authors before him, Robert Duperre has the ability to develop full, rich characters with brilliant abilities and realistic flaws, he puts them in completely fleshed out scenery and amidst events dramatic on global and personal scales and he makes the reader connect in a viseral, emotional way.
The first two books in this series bring you to the point where life is not easy for these characters. The world as we know it has completely fallen apart. Those few who survived the horror begin to band together but are met time and again by obstacles, be they monsters or the aftermath. Still, humans have the inherant ability to move on, in the toughest circumstances, against the harshest of odds. And such is the case with these characters.
I loved the way Macy grew in this book, learning to trust herself and find love, making mistakes along the way. Josh too deepens his connection with Kyra, his long time love and the woman carrying his child. But the characters I was most fascinated by were those who had aligned themselves with evil.
There's Tom Steinberg, the former Speaker of the House, to start with. He's been around since The Fall, but in the first two books he was so controlled by Sam, the not-quite-a-real-man with the evil plan, that I didn't really connect with him. But Tom starts to question Sam in this book, pushing back as he remembers the things that are important to him: his wife and daughter. The struggle Tom endures to save his own soul becomes a prominent story line in this book.
We also meet the not-so-altruistic portions of the human race. General Bathgate and his toady, Cody Jackson, are some of the most dispicable characters I have ever come across in fiction, and I found them fascinating. The issues that roil within their psyche's are profound and deep. I am definitely looking forward to seeing what insanity they engage in and incite in the next and final book, The Summer Son!
I have but one warning for this book: the cliff-hanger just might kill you. But honestly, it's just so worth it!!!
Bottom Line
Watch out! Robert Duperre will have you cringing, crying and desperate to see the anguish these characters are mired in stop. But the one thing you won't be doing, is putting this book down, because I know, like me, you won't be able to stop until you've savored every last word!
April 17, 2012
Robert J. Duperre has written yet another amazing book in the Rift Series, with Death Springs Eternal! I was absolutely thrilled when offered the chance to read this, after having bonded with the characters in the first two novels, and found myself even more invested than I had been before! Putting this book down proved to be nearly impossible, as did eating or sleeping without wondering what was going to happen next, who would live and what would become of them.
I will say, this third installment in the series was incredibly heart-wrenching and left my mouth hanging wide open, and yes, sometimes tears in my eyes as I absorbed the hardship and terror these characters were put through! The second book, Dead of Winter was anything but peaceful, but I was left with a sense of optimism and hope. Death Springs Eternal made sure to rip those happy thoughts away, sometimes making me wish the characters would give up or give in just to save themselves. Screw humanity! The world was an evil, desolate place…what was the point of fighting or trying to save anyone?! But that was the point, it wasn’t all bad and there was a chance, however small it may be, to set things right!
Very few authors have been able to hold my attention and admiration the way that Mr. Duperre has, and I strongly suggest to anyone who hasn’t given these stories a try, to pick them up NOW!
Hazel O'Shea
Written for the Juniper Grove Blog
I will say, this third installment in the series was incredibly heart-wrenching and left my mouth hanging wide open, and yes, sometimes tears in my eyes as I absorbed the hardship and terror these characters were put through! The second book, Dead of Winter was anything but peaceful, but I was left with a sense of optimism and hope. Death Springs Eternal made sure to rip those happy thoughts away, sometimes making me wish the characters would give up or give in just to save themselves. Screw humanity! The world was an evil, desolate place…what was the point of fighting or trying to save anyone?! But that was the point, it wasn’t all bad and there was a chance, however small it may be, to set things right!
Very few authors have been able to hold my attention and admiration the way that Mr. Duperre has, and I strongly suggest to anyone who hasn’t given these stories a try, to pick them up NOW!
Hazel O'Shea
Written for the Juniper Grove Blog
February 5, 2012
Almost getting good
June 25, 2012
Hi there, this is my first attempt at a book review so please forgive me! The rift part 3 death springs eternal was the best of the 3 books so far, it went mutch further into the blackness that our society could actually be pushed. Even though the whole of the world was taken over by blood and flesh thirsty Zombies as well as incredibly fast, strong and savage wraiths, the humans left where hell bent of killing other humans who didnt fit in to the new world order and killing fellow servivours was seen as a must to rid the world of ethnic minorities. I thought this book was very powerfull and even though there was very little zombie action it didnt matter, I was absorbed by the deep,disfunctional personalities and the supernatural eliments developed throughout.
What im trying to say that although it is not your conventional zombie apocalypse novel if you stick with the series it opens up a whole new meaning to the word terror. Cant wait for book four and ive been informed by the author the conclusion to the rift series. Well done Mr Duperre for and excellent and very different take to the zombie genre.
What im trying to say that although it is not your conventional zombie apocalypse novel if you stick with the series it opens up a whole new meaning to the word terror. Cant wait for book four and ive been informed by the author the conclusion to the rift series. Well done Mr Duperre for and excellent and very different take to the zombie genre.
March 28, 2012
These are not stand alone books. Although they contain some new twists on the usual old fashioned Zombie Apocalypse stories, they dragged on too long for my taste and ended in cliff hangers. I can appreciate the author's talent, effort, and originality and that there will be many people who absolutely love these books. Blame it on adult ADD or something, but by this third book I had lost interest in the series. I don't mean to say that these weren't enjoyable stories. They were refreshingly original and the characters well-drawn, sympathetic, and intriguing but by book three I was more than ready for the the series to end, but it didn't.
November 19, 2013
Things are coming together and almost all the groups are in one place making it much easier to follow. A good many pieces are coming together but the people still struggle and there is still one loose end. Overall I've still enjoyed the series but didn't really get caught up into it until this book. It's still more of a curiosity rather than totally into the book.
December 26, 2013
Meh. Very disappointing for being the 3rd book. Im only going to read the last one to find out what happens to the other characters that havent been killed yet. Racism, raping, and murder... Lets see how the angels and demons solve this one! Sigh...
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June 11, 2012
This one was frustrating...hope the end will be happy!
July 9, 2012
I liked it a lot better than the first two. It was a little sad, quite a bit if tragedy.
September 29, 2016
Best yet
I truly enjoyed this third book. Lots of dramatic action. No sugar coating here. Looking forward to the next instalment.
I truly enjoyed this third book. Lots of dramatic action. No sugar coating here. Looking forward to the next instalment.
May 27, 2014
Continuing saga of zombies and aliens, doesn't look good for humanity.
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