{"id":4889,"date":"2014-10-24T19:13:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T23:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:50:42","slug":"downfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4889","title":{"rendered":"Downfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Downfall<\/a><\/em> (2014) Rob Thurman<\/a><\/p>\n

\"downfall\"<\/a>I fully admit that I have been avoiding reading this book.<\/p>\n

As the series has gone it, it has become more and more clear that Niko and Cal won\u2019t outlive each other. If one is killed, the other will fall soon after, most likely in a horribly violent and destructive way, for they cannot live without each other.<\/p>\n

And this book\u2014like the first\u2014starts off at the near end, with the brothers facing a thousand monsters and ready to die.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not ready for their deaths. I mean, I\u2019ve known for quite a while now that can\u2019t live without each other, and that with their lifestyles (not to mention Cal\u2019s monstrous heritage taking over) neither is bound to live very long.<\/p>\n

But I wasn\u2019t ready to read it yet, so this book has sat waiting for me to pick it up. Despite the fact that I love these characters and these books so much I typically devour them in one sitting.<\/p>\n

And then when I started reading it a couple weeks ago, I saw the book switched between Cal and Robin\u2019s point-of-view and then I was certain it was going to have a horrible ending.<\/p>\n

So, yes, this book switches between Cal\u2019s point-of-view and Robin\u2019s. Yes, most of the books are from Cal\u2019s point-of-view, but this isn\u2019t the first time Cal has shared the limelight, but this is the first time we\u2019ve spent a lot of time with Robin Goodfellow, and it\u2019s the first time we really get to see the world as Robin sees it, as he has watched the millennia crawl by, and come upon two souls\u2014Cal and Niko\u2014again and again.<\/p>\n

There was no therapy for lives millions of years too long\u2026 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But we also get glimpses of what Niko and Cal were like in previous lives, and some of those were marvelous.<\/p>\n

Cal had invariably wanted the minimum skill to keep him alive, as he needed his other valuable time to drink, get in fights, chase women, sleep, and generally enjoy the hell out of life. I had to respect that if not out-and-out applaud it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Robin is amusing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNiko, first, it\u2019s kind of you to not want to take advantage. If I were less manly, virile, and brimming with machismo, I\u2019d go so far as to say it\u2019s rather adorable that you think you could.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But never fear, Cal, (despite everything) is still Cal.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, things were so damn dire that I was forced to convert to the metric system to indicate how fucking close my head came to exploding like a blood-filled cantaloupe. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah Cal.<\/p>\n

Am I sorry I put off reading this? Fearing what would happen? No, not really. Because it was good to be able to read it all I one sitting, which I hadn\u2019t had time for, previously.<\/p>\n

Couple negatives\u2014a couple times the editing seemed a little off\u2014sentences took me several reads to parse, and I still wasn\u2019t 100% certain what the sentence was trying to say. Which all struck me as extremely odd, as this felt very much like the final Cal & Niko book. But I was tearing through the book pretty quickly, so the issues could have been mind. I\u2019m pretty sure a re-read would clarify.<\/p>\n

And although some reviews I read complained about it, I absolutely adored Robin\u2019s bits, and the trips down memory lane from his past and Cal & Niko\u2019s other lives.
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/p>\n

Published by ROC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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