Seeing all of the pathogens and the history of the DMS come back to bite it in the ass was revisiting a horrible, painful past.
I ended up throwing my hands up and saying it's a whole bunch of things but basically it's amazing.
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At that point I got caught up in my own head trying to figure out how to really describe it. Then I paused and said well it's kind of horror too. I tried to describe the genre of this series to my husband last night and I said it's action. The adrenaline rush this series creates is just off the charts. Where was Riggs during all these previous stories? For me this is a weak offering and looks like it was hastily edited and shoved to print with no proof. The hastily slapped together backstories for both of these characters are riddled with incongruities that rear their head everytime either character is even mentioned. The number of red herrings left by Mother Night might have been more impressive if I wasn't too busy wondering why she and Samson Riggs were stuffed into this story. Namely, the berserkers but they are hardly a threat considering how many Joe stabbed to death with his Rapid Release Folding Knife(stop writing it out everytime John.) A scant handful of berserkers against all of Echo Team, including Joe in much better condition than when he slaughtered a dozen or so of them hardly adds any tension. Maberry tries to scare the reader by pulling out some big baddies from previous stories. It feels like a poorly written tabletop adventure. She appears to be "one step ahead" at every turn but it's so shoehorned that it doesn't feel at all like a plan. Her methods don't live up to her advertised intelligence. Her reasons for action are juvenile and not believable. Mother Night is far and away one of the least deep and motivated villains I've ever read. This novel was at best a poor sequel to Patient Zero and at worst an overblown poorly thought out plot hole monster.