Publisher: Rune Publishing
Date of publication: February 2018
You either build your world or you burn in someone else's.
With every fleeting moment, the whole world draws closer to being overcome by the deadliest virus known to man.
Steele's family home lies in burnt ruins on the shore of Lake Michigan. His group hunts for his missing mother in the apocalyptic wilderness filled with the dead. Instead he finds a group of refugees badly in need of his skills learned in the shadow war on terror, for they are persecuted at every step by the Chosen, a group of fanatics hell-bent on creating God's Kingdom in the rubble of society.
Dr. Joseph Jackowski finds himself in a dangerous battle against both the deadly virus and the clock inside the bowels of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. His team struggles as their own members fall victim to the virus in a race to discover a vaccine.
Colonel Kinnick rushes his paltry forces into the rocky passes of Colorado to hold the dead off long enough for a vaccine to be found. If he fails, the Vice President will burn the entire Western Seaboard into the blazing inferno of a nuclear holocaust.
Who will rise? The Living or the Dead?
When I went into this series, I was sure I would never last to the third book. But, I have to say that this series has been a pleasant surprise. The Rising is the third book in the End Time series. It will not work well as a stand alone since it assumes you have read the first two books. This picks up pretty much right after the events of book two.
Being the third book, it's hard to talk plot without spoiling the first two books. But this time around, Steele and his crew face even more danger in the form of an evangelical cult. Joseph is fighting to make a vaccine and Colonel Kinnick is put into a battle that is set up to fail miserably. There is so much packed into this installment. When I finished listening to the audiobook, I felt like I had watched an entire season of "End Time, the TV series". Of course, the book ends on a major cliffhanger, so I will have to read book number four.
I think what has attracted me to this series is the way it looks at the real danger humans would face in an apocalypse. It turns out that our fellow humans pose more of a danger than any monster out there. It's also interesting to see which humans rise to the challenge and become heroes and which ones end up turning out to be villains. I highly recommend this one. The books keep getting better and better.
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