„Veil’s Fall“ by Taylor White is the sixth and final installment in the “Alice Skye Series”, and the conclusion Alice has been (sometimes unknowingly) racing to for the very beginning, a wonderful and fully satisfying end to a highly enjoyable series. But I’m going ahead of myself. As everybody already knows in the beginning Alice Skye was Paladin Agent for the SIB (Supernatural Intelligence Bureau), who in the course of her adventures became an independent Paladin agent, working with the so-called Spook Squad, the supernatural squad in the local police department, and in special with Detective Brady, and subsequently has successfully fought Daemons, monsters, rogue wolf shifters, a corrupt Archdruid, some hellhounds and withstood The Council’s tribunal, but none of it could have possible prepare her for this final trial.
Alice has conquered Fate once and again, but this time Fate is out to get her: the Veil is falling, facilitating the random opening of portals all throughout the city, while drained vampire bodies keep turning up…. Alice control is about to break, which could be very, very bad….. The only way to stop the catastrophe is to rewrite fate, the only question being…. Is Alice really up to it?
This is the Alice greatest adventure, the whole fate of the world depends on her, the stakes are high, the danger is considerable, but the rewards are incommensurable. Taylor White’s writing style is – as always – captivating, crisp, and addictive; the story blends plot and character development into a single most coherent narrative string garnished with fast-paced action, dark aesthetics, a very high dose of mystery and dramatic tension, graphic situations, and the right amount of romance and chemistry to highlight the adventure without overshadowing the story.