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david_agranoff's review against another edition
5.0
Wow, just wow. RMJ #10 is no doubt my favorite in the series. Harbingers is a dark and Brutal twist in the Repairman Jack saga. I saw this book coming, but I felt like I was frozen on a train track as a speeding locomotive was coming to crush me while reading this book. As much as I think this is the best in the series I can see that many will not dig this entry in the series. I also think this book will lack power if you are not already read the previous books.
Most of the repairman Jack books can somewhat stand-alone (although they are better if read in order). I would describe this book as heartbreaking, enraging and suspenseful. The entire series is balanced on the events of this book and it’s startling twists. Everything is put into question.
After the tragic events of the last novel Jack has been laying low. A job drops in his lap when a fellow customer at his favorite bar hires him to find a missing teenage woman. When Jack tracks her down he discovers she is being used for a ritual connected to the otherness (The great evil force behind the great conflict of the story). Sounds good but can Jack save her he runs into a crew who are a part of the same conflict. The Yeneçari are an underground of fighters serving to protect the Occulus a human who speaks for the Ally. When Jack first encounters them he thinks they are kidnapping the teen, but quickly realizes they are the good guys.
Warriors in the same struggle the Yenecari want to recruit Jack and why shouldn’t Jack consider it. Sure he has always worked alone, but wouldn’t allies help. How can one man fight against an enemy as strong and vast as the Otherness. This conflict and the idea of Jack being a team player becomes the central theme of the novel. What would the Ally do to make sure it has Jack’s full attention.
Wilson pays his readers back big time for their devotion to the series. All the reasons that make this novel so powerful are serious spoilers so after you read the novel look up my spoiler review on my blog. www.davidagranoff.blogspot.com
Most of the repairman Jack books can somewhat stand-alone (although they are better if read in order). I would describe this book as heartbreaking, enraging and suspenseful. The entire series is balanced on the events of this book and it’s startling twists. Everything is put into question.
After the tragic events of the last novel Jack has been laying low. A job drops in his lap when a fellow customer at his favorite bar hires him to find a missing teenage woman. When Jack tracks her down he discovers she is being used for a ritual connected to the otherness (The great evil force behind the great conflict of the story). Sounds good but can Jack save her he runs into a crew who are a part of the same conflict. The Yeneçari are an underground of fighters serving to protect the Occulus a human who speaks for the Ally. When Jack first encounters them he thinks they are kidnapping the teen, but quickly realizes they are the good guys.
Warriors in the same struggle the Yenecari want to recruit Jack and why shouldn’t Jack consider it. Sure he has always worked alone, but wouldn’t allies help. How can one man fight against an enemy as strong and vast as the Otherness. This conflict and the idea of Jack being a team player becomes the central theme of the novel. What would the Ally do to make sure it has Jack’s full attention.
Wilson pays his readers back big time for their devotion to the series. All the reasons that make this novel so powerful are serious spoilers so after you read the novel look up my spoiler review on my blog. www.davidagranoff.blogspot.com
acknud's review against another edition
4.0
Better than the last one. This has better action and follows the path set out by previous novels. We get introduced to a whole new clan of characters, the yeniceri and the oculi. Throw in the targeting of Gia and Vickie and you have a very good read.
jmcguoirk's review against another edition
5.0
"a Spear with no Branches", Best one yet! Thanks FPW.
scottk1222's review against another edition
5.0
Jack is Back !!!!! I was a bit worried when I read the 9th installment of the Repairman Jack series,to put it mildly .....it sucked. Needless to say I was a bit leary to pick up # 10 of the series,even though 1-8 were awesome,# 9 just was not good....... at all. Then came the fateful day,while perusing Borders I saw that Harbingers was out in paperback. After a few minutes of arguing with myself whether I wanted to continue the series or not,I picked it up. It found it's way home with me that night,still to sit upon my shelf for a month while I read other things. I started it on Friday night,and finished it last night. I actually did not get to sleep until 2 A.M. because I was sooo absorbed in finding out what was going to happen.I was not disappointed, F.Paul Wilson knew what the heck he was doing with this one (even if he didn't with # 9 imho). Although, now that I have read Harbingers I can see what he was trying to do (through a very dirty smudged glass) I can not wait to see what he does with #11. Alas,I have to,it does not come out in paperback until October 08.I am sure I can keep myself busy with other books until that time.
careythesixth's review against another edition
4.0
Read this in two days... so tired... but I needed to know what happened. A spear has no branches...
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