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trying to think of an analogy that encompasses all of the great things this book brings to the reader, First and foremost, while it falls firmly within the sci fi genre, it draws liberally from many others, There are strong mystery and adventure elements here that make the story almost ache with tension, It is not a book that is easy to put down, nor will you find sections that are easy to skim over due to lulls in plot or action.
The story is layered, intelligent and if you are a bit of a nerd, littered with pop culture references that kinda fill you with glee.
But more importantly are the characters, You will love the heroes! They are the kind of heroes that we flock to the movies to see! They are flawed, smart mouthed, get beat up, but still put every ounce of their blood sweat and tears into saving the every man.
And even better are the villains, They do the most heinous things within the story but somehow the author sneaks up behind you and gives them plausible motivations that almost makes them likeable.
It is infuriating and makes for excellent storytelling! The world building is superb but somehow manages to come across with a light touch.
The science is woven in plausibly, believably and at a level that I think is accessible to the average reader, But beyond all of this is the readability, You know that thing that sets the good authors apart from the great I'm sure there are hundreds of book critics who have spent thousands of reviews trying to explain what that untangible is, but suffice it to say, its here.
Mr. Hough has it and I could not stop reading his amazing words, In all honesty I am now a life long fan and cannot wait to have the chance to read this story all over again from beginning.
I hope it will become one of the great sci fi epics that we'll be reading for decades to come! The second book of the Dire Earth Cycle, sitelinkThe Exodus Towers, ended with a slow, tense burn that continues into The Plague Forge.
Skyler Luiken, the main character, now shares the spotlight with Tania Sharma and Samantha Rinn and all are on separate missions to retrieve the last three alien artifacts to complete the puzzle on the alien “Builders” Key Ship.
Tania and Skylers teams deal with the ever present threat of subhumans and the SUBS disease, while Samantha, within Darwin, must steal the blue artifact from the cold and deadly Grillo and his Jacobites.


Initially, I appreciated the way the Jacobites, a cult based on Jacobs Ladder, were unobtrusively incorporated into the story, Im not fond of religious cults as authors often allow them to take up a lot of the plot with preaching and indoctrination.
In the previous book, they did play a prominent role, which continued here as the official Big BadTM, but Hough did not bog the story down with their zealotry.
The Jacobites and their leader, Grillo, existed as our heroes foil, and, while they did attempt to indoctrinate a few people here and there, it was not their prominent function within the plot.


Similarly, the characters of Pablo and Vanessa, Skylers new crewmates, served their plot function as efficient soldiers in Skylers new crew, but as actual characters, I would have liked to see them be more fleshed out.
I never gained a connection with them as I had with Skylers original crew, no matter how often Skyler referenced them as “his crew.
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Otherwise, I really liked a lot of Houghs characters, including some that were not meant to be liked, such as the deplorable Russell Blackfield.
Ive really enjoyed the insight into his character, When he was first introduced, he was the evil despot, but I loved that Hough allowed us to see more of him as the trilogy progressed without merely turning into a bad guy to be destroyed or redeemed.
I respect that all the characters were very much flawed and the heroes werent necessary likable, while the evil despots werent necessarily bad, considering the circumstances.
And I loved that Hough was not afraid to kill his babies, No one died needlessly, but it certainly raised the stakes to realize that any of them could die at any time,

As this was the final book in the trilogy, it meant that we finally get the answer to the question that hung over the entire story: What the hell do the Builders want Of course the heroes would obtain the three artifacts and of course they would put the puzzle together and meet the Builders, who were already on their way.
But when I finally got to the answer, I was shocked by it and by the pithy perfection of its delivery, It offered the closure I needed, while opening an entirely exciting new door, Dont walk into this expecting any sort of happy ending, considering the devastation the Builders have caused, but Hough left me with a bittersweet offer of hope and forgiveness that surprised me and left me inam tears.


With thanks to Netgalley and Del Rey Spectra for the opportunity to read and review an advanced copy of this book.


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sitelink OH my, where to start I loved it, I hated it mainly that it ended, and i'm confused by itNEED MORE ANSWERS.


The end of this book answers so many questions but not until the VERY VERY end, At the same time it just leaves you with more questions to be answered, The book is left in a very good position to write spin offs and additional novels, AND WOW do i hope the author continues.
I want to know more, . . WAY MORE I want to get wrapped into more intense fights with who knows what kind of enemies, I want to know more of what happens to Earth I just want more of these amazing books,

I really enjoyed reading each of the exciting scenes presented in this book it is repetitive in regards to there are lots of fights but each is different depending who is fighting what and where.
You can really tell each character has their own way of doing things and it makes each scene just as engaging as any other.


July, on hold! And don't think it isn't killing me!

September,Signed, sealed and delivered beyond expectations, The Plague Forge by Jason Hough brings his Dire Earth Cycle to a brilliant conclusion! Intense, detailed and flying by at breakneck speed in a race against time and an unknown alien faction with an equally unknown purpose, The Plague Forge holds on to its final secrets until the very end.
Imagine a rollercoaster powering to the precipice, then plunging downward, leaving you breathless, waiting for your stomach to catch up, and that amazing adrenaline rush that makes you grin silly as you pull into the final stop, completely satisfied and ready to do it again after a short breather! The Plague Forge is that good!

Jason Hough is a master at his craft! He makes each scene real, I did the mental look around, seeing it all.
With larger than life characters, surprising heroes, mindless SUBS, evil, manipulating power mongers, and the dark, looming unknown from beyond, I was living in the moment in each book! Did I lose a few too many friends in the battle Yes! Did I witness true bravery in action Yes! Did I see tons of gore, guts and brutality Yes! Did I find the hardfought resolution and hope for the future Yes! Do I want more from the mind and pen of this great Scifi author YES! Am I keeping the gun I used in the fights No, silly, this was fiction, but I would like to return to see what is happening now!

I received an ARC edition from NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group Del Rey Spectra in exchange for my honest review.


Publication Date: September,
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Del Rey Spectra
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Series: The Dire Earth Cycle, Book
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Genre: Scifi
Recommended Audience: NA on up!
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The more I kept reading the book, the less and less I was rooting for anyone to finish getting the parts up the the Builder ship.
And the last part of summing up who the Builders were and why they were doing it just felt like I read abook prequel to a whole new series.
If you like two fisted SF with a heavy dystopian feel then this is for you, But I think I am done here,


Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss Well, I saw this series through to the bitter end.
Sunken cost fallacy comes to mind, "After discovering the first key in the wreckage of a crashed Builder ship, Skyler Luiken and his crew follow the migrating aura towers in search of the four remaining relics.
But time is running out: the team learn that the next Builder event will be the last, and one of the objects has already fallen into dangerous hands.
. . Will the survivors finally reveal the Builders' plan"

That is a very short paragraph describing the action in The Plague Forge, book three in the Dire Earth Cycle and yet it says it all.
There was not that much substance in the third book,

The book followed various characters from the previous books as they retrieved the keys for the Builders ships, While each team faced unique challenges after awhile each one sounded a lot alike, This is worth reading if you have followed the first two books but otherwise you can skip The Plague Forge, The ending was not what I expected, They did find out what the Builders wanted and it may set up a new series but for me it was a bit of a disappointment.


I received an ARC of The Plague Forge from Netgalley Finished The Plague Forge at:this morning, and my first mental response was to say "iiiiiiiiiinteresting" in a slightly foreign villainous accent.
Yes, this book kept me up until all hours, pressing onward towards the action packed conclusion, Yes, Mr. Hough does his best George R, R. Martin impression with some of the characters, And yes, the stage is set for a potential return to the Dire Earth universe, And, like with the previous books, many of the events that unfolded did so in a way that was just slightly off from what I expected.
So, more of what I have come to expect from this very enjoyable series,

I would say that Mr, Hough's greatest ability is to play with the reader's expectations, While many of the major plot twists and character arcs can be somewhat figured out ahead of time, he executes them in such a way that it still feels like a surprise.
And I appreciate the unexpected, His books fall into that rare spot between familiar comfort and the completely outofleftfield,

This being the final book in The Dire Earth Cycle, all of the plot points and divergent storylines finally come together, usually with explosive results.
It was nice to have Skyler and Sam back together again, and it was good to see more of Kelly, even if her sections were still small.
Tania's predicament on Earth was a mixed bag for me, On the one hand, it happened so incidentally that it was completely plausible, On the other, it was handled so incidentally that it didn't have nearly as much impact as I feel it should have.
Russell Blackfield's storyline was somewhat unexpected, and might be a little too much out of character for him for me to swallow, but c'est la vie.
Everyone else has their moment to shine, especially Mr, Prumble, who is always a welcome addition to any chapter he is in, Some of the "relationships" that developed seemed a little forced to me, and this seems to be the only area that Mr.
Hough stumbles a bit in the narrative, Still, it's basically the apocalypse as far as some of these characters are concerned, so I'll give them the leeway to find love in the strangest of places.


Ultimately, I found this a fitting end to a pretty grand and gritty scifi tale, Like I said in my review of The Exodus Towers, I am still hoping for a prequel tale of Skyler and his original crew on the Melville even

a short story! I'm not picky!, but with the way the final book ends, I am expecting to see sequels instead of prequels.
Oh well, I will contain my sadness, and continue to read anything that Mr, Hough writes. .