The Last Redemption

by James Holmes

The hell freeze is over. In its wake, the earth is an inferno.
The survivors must band together to survive and fight against those who have come.
The child born of a dead woman.
The man who cannot die.
And the One who rules them all.
The startling conclusion to James Holmes' The Last Disciple and The Last Testament.
The end of days is not near...
It is here.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

Reviews

[Vishal Bagaria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay so there’s a lot happening in the final part of this trilogy. Do yourselves a favour - read all three books in uninterrupted successions. The fading memories from The Last Disciple and The Last Testament sort of put a speed breaker and took me a while to get back to who’s who and where’s what etc. Most of the book is about visions emanating from the key. What’s real and what’s not, we don’t know. The Event is explained but it seems like the author was in a bit of a hurry to get to his point which is a blink-and-you-miss sort of a thing. It did feel that the book was rushed but hey, given an Armageddon kinda situation, the plot taking over the characters is wholly justified. But rushing into atmospheric descriptions that made up the previous two is an unforgivable crime of sorts - the ambiance created in the first two books stirred the imagination, whereas in the final one, the action shifts from mountains to valleys to islands to skies having roots in heaven to deserted highways to what not - this requires some careful pacing which would help readers like myself take in the ambiance like fine wine. That feel is evidently missing. Minor typos are scattered here and there. There was a lot of confusion about a lot of things - who’s the Caesar, why’s he there, what’s he doing etc etc - and again, pacing comes into question here. Those other things aside, the book does grow on you and you do want answers to whatever happened earlier on in the series. It’s shorter (needlessly though) and much higher on the action. I would’ve liked it as much as I did the other two, had the author taken his time to let the scenery grow on you, to let the imagination run wild, to let the fear permeate through the reader ... won’t call it brilliant but good enough, meh.

[C · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a whirlwind conclusion to Holmes' The Last Disciple Trilogy. A sense of dread will hit you right from the start and stay with you. Like the first two books, this one isn't for the faint of heart. It's violent and graphic. But you finally get your answers and see how it all comes together for the characters you've been following and pulling for throughout. It's also full of biblical references, which were lost on me... but for someone familiar with the Bible, will be a great thing to track.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

It wraps the story up. It has good pacing. The depiction of Hell was just made me a bit squeamish.
All and all a good tie up to the series.