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A review by gemma351
Fighting Pax by Robin Jarvis
4.0
I have loved Robin Jarvis’ books for many years and I certainly gave my favourites. This trilogy is much more grown up than his others.
I love the premise of a book that, once read, becomes a kind of real life for the readers who involuntarily adopt a character as a persona. The horror elements are typical Jarvis and well done. The end... the broad end is beautiful. The actual last couple of pages are a new kind of terrifying and foreshadowed at several points. Don’t expect anything to be neat.
I really enjoyed that a lot of the main characters are atypical (Charm, who is introduced as a chav, likes are make up and spray tan -could have been a terrible caricature but is so important in so many ways).
Fantastically good all round.
I love the premise of a book that, once read, becomes a kind of real life for the readers who involuntarily adopt a character as a persona. The horror elements are typical Jarvis and well done. The end... the broad end is beautiful. The actual last couple of pages are a new kind of terrifying and foreshadowed at several points. Don’t expect anything to be neat.
I really enjoyed that a lot of the main characters are atypical (Charm, who is introduced as a chav, likes are make up and spray tan -could have been a terrible caricature but is so important in so many ways).
Fantastically good all round.