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A review by caitie95
Oblivion by Anthony Horowitz
5.0
A very thick and weighty book, with even more going on than the previous novels.
It starts a little slow and unexpected, with a major plot twist that the whole book relies on to work, and does make sense in a way when considering what happened in the third in the series, [b:Nightrise|107669|Nightrise (The Gatekeepers, #3)|Anthony Horowitz|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328866616s/107669.jpg|2840524], but that I personally found a little jarring.
As was suggested at the end of [b:Necropolis|2870651|Necropolis (The Gatekeepers, #4)|Anthony Horowitz|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348477584s/2870651.jpg|2896806] it took a while and some manoeuvring to get to the 'final showdown', as it were. In some ways, it was all it promised to be, whilst in others, it could be seen as a bit of a let down. However, this did add to the 'gritty reality' nature of the book, in which it doesn't all slot into plan at the end (or at least not until the very end). I was pleased (and also gutted) that an event I predicted would happen from something that was said in [b:Evil Star|107670|Evil Star (The Gatekeepers, #2)|Anthony Horowitz|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328866615s/107670.jpg|2827335] came to pass.
The conclusion was a little strange, though also a bit cliché, particularly with regards to the genre, and recaptured a bit of the dream-mystery present in the first two books.
I raced through this book a lot faster than I really should have done, mostly just to finally get to the end. I will have to read it again a more leisurely pace to absorb more of the details I missed the first time round.
It starts a little slow and unexpected, with a major plot twist that the whole book relies on to work, and does make sense in a way when considering what happened in the third in the series, [b:Nightrise|107669|Nightrise (The Gatekeepers, #3)|Anthony Horowitz|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328866616s/107669.jpg|2840524], but that I personally found a little jarring.
As was suggested at the end of [b:Necropolis|2870651|Necropolis (The Gatekeepers, #4)|Anthony Horowitz|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348477584s/2870651.jpg|2896806] it took a while and some manoeuvring to get to the 'final showdown', as it were. In some ways, it was all it promised to be, whilst in others, it could be seen as a bit of a let down. However, this did add to the 'gritty reality' nature of the book, in which it doesn't all slot into plan at the end (or at least not until the very end). I was pleased (and also gutted) that an event I predicted would happen from something that was said in [b:Evil Star|107670|Evil Star (The Gatekeepers, #2)|Anthony Horowitz|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328866615s/107670.jpg|2827335] came to pass.
The conclusion was a little strange, though also a bit cliché, particularly with regards to the genre, and recaptured a bit of the dream-mystery present in the first two books.
I raced through this book a lot faster than I really should have done, mostly just to finally get to the end. I will have to read it again a more leisurely pace to absorb more of the details I missed the first time round.