Sunday 5 November 2023

DESTROYER RISING


Destroyer Rising by Eric R. Asher
Book 5 of the Vesik series
Read by William Dufris
Genre: urban fantasy
Format: ebook & audio


About Destroyer Rising:
It's been three years since we failed Vicky, the child once known as Elizabeth Gray. Three years she's lived as something not quite alive, but far from dead. Her path grows darker, even as she spreads light and hope through a tortured world. The Destroyer has come to claim her, and I can’t fail her again. I won't. Elizabeth's fate lies in the Burning Lands, and we will storm the gates.
Source: Info in the About Destroyer Rising was taken from GoodReads at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28093482-destroyer-rising on 21/01/2018.

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My Thoughts:
It is interesting to see how Vesik is evolving along with the story arc. In "Days Gone Bad", Vesik's world is a "hidden world". As in, the supernatural community is hiding in plain sight from the general public. In "This Broken World" (the last book prior to this one), it exploded all to hell and back and the world building turned from "hidden" to "open". This is the first series that I have encountered which switched gears like that which left me as a reader, still reeling from the impact. That contributed to the pace of this book into slowing down to a crawl... I needed space to absorb it... also in the previous book, there was a blurring of the borderline between what a good guy is and what a bad guy is. The theme of "the bad guys may be the good guys after all", has been woven into the story all through out the book... the good guys are the bad guys and the bad guys are the good guys blurring... in this one it continues with Vesik's evolution into something else. Another thing that slowed the pace of this book down to a crawl is the fact that I have to stop every now and then (and some "nows & thens" were longer than others) and grieve for the characters that the author had killed off... That took a while...

This instalment in the Vesik series has the best cover art thus far! Kudos to the art department for a job well done!!

In the previous books, Vesik and our team of heroes seemed to aimlessly run from one fight to another. In this book they still run from one fight into another, but, this time around with a little bit more of a plot than before. Kudos! And the ending was still a cliffhanger like all the books in this series, but still I cried...


Empirical Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 4
Character development = 4.5
Story itself = 4
Writing Style = 3.5
Ending = 4.5
World building = 4.5
Cover art = 4.5
Pace = (9 hrs and 32 mins listening time)
Plot = 3.5
Narration = 5

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 cherries


Books In The Vesik Series:
Book 1: DAYS GONE BAD   Book 2: WOLVES AND THE RIVER OF STONE   Book 3: WINTER'S DEMON   Book 4: THIS BROKEN WORLD   Book 5: DESTROYER RISING   Book 5.5: WHISPERS OF WAR   Book 6: RATTLE THE BONES   Book 7: WITCH QUEEN'S WAR   Book 8: FORGOTTEN GHOSTS   Book 9: THE BOOK OF THE GHOST     Book 11: THE BOOK OF THE SEA   Book 12: THE BOOK OF THE STAFF   Book 13: THE BOOK OF THE RUNE   Book 14: THE BOOK OF THE SAILS   Book 15: THE BOOK OF THE WING   Book 16: THE BOOK OF THE BLADE   Book 17: THE BOOK OF THE FANG   Book 18: THE BOOK OF THE REAPER   Book 19: DREAMS OF THE FORGOTTEN DEAD   Book 20: GARDEN GNOME GRAVES  


About Eric R. Asher
Eric Asher
Eric is a former bookseller, guitarist, and comic seller currently living in Saint Louis, Missouri. A lifelong enthusiast of books, music, toys, and games, he discovered a love for the written word after being dragged to the library by his parents at a young age. When he is not writing, you can usually find him reading, gaming, or buried beneath a small avalanche of Transformers.
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FTC Disclosure:
This book was purchased with private funds.
No money received for this review.

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