This alternate history, magic using populace tale went out with a bang. I want more! Great action sequences, wonderful characterization and top- notch story pacing. It's #3 people, so start at the beginning.

This was a worthy conclusion to a fast paced trilogy. I was never bored with the story or the action, and enjoyed the way he chose to conclude the plot. This book has been nominated for a Hugo award. While I'm giving it 5 stars and enjoyed it immensely, for various reasons I'm hoping that it does not win the award, but this series is well worth the read.

what a fabulous series, and narrated for audiobook so well.

Mostly killing well narrated

The Grimnoir once again have a challenge. A huge challenge. The world is on the line once again and this group with magical powers are needed to save the day. Will the Enemy devour the world or will this group once again find a way to stop disaster from happening.

Okay that sounded a little sarcastic. I do enjoy these books and the magical powers these characters have. If you enjoyed the first two then you will enjoy this one as well.

Magically Superpowered humans fight--for control of earth and to save it from a mega-powered super-being.

I read approximately two-thirds of this and lost interest. I also started with this book, so I might be missing something for lack of context.

The magically superpowered heroes and villains in a modern take on classic pulp fiction just weren't doing it for me. It reminded me in a way of [b:Invasion|16078549|Invasion (The Secret World Chronicles #1)|Mercedes Lackey|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349871841s/16078549.jpg|23901613], which I liked slightly better, but still am not going to read more in that series. Maybe if it was written more solidly in the pulp or modern style it would have worked. I'm not sure. Because of the pulpiness, most of the characters were cardboard for me. Interesting, but cardboard. Also, the world wasn't different enough for having all these superpowered beings living in it for decades--it mirrored significant events of our world too closely to make sense to me.

What worked for me? As mentioned above, even if the characters were a bit flat, some of the main ones were kind of interesting. The action was fun.

NOTE: I read this in the 2014 Hugo Voter Pack.

A fun magic system, and I'm always up for planet-destroying aliens threatening to eat the world. However, a lot of the characters are based pretty strongly in cliches, and there is a lot of violence. A LOT.

A book from a series I had never before even heard by an author who is at most only a superficially familiar name. At first I thought that this would be a spoof in manner of Scalzi’s short story which was nominated a few years ago, the title seemed to be so ludicrously preposterous. But no, this is a real series done apparently with an (almost) straight face. The Grimnor is an organization who fights against supernatural threats in an alternative 1930s world. Superpowers are common. There are people who can teleport, mess with gravity, be super intelligent, be unbelievably strong and so on. They tap some sort of “power” and are often able to augment their powers by crossing it with technology. A some sort of alien creature who craves the “magic” for its’ sustenance is coming to earth, to kill and destroy everything. It has sent its first influence ahead and that has infiltrated at least the Japanese government. The Grimnor starts to fight the evil influence. As this was the third part of the series, it took some time to get what was going on and who was who. By the end of the book there was a lot of fighting. And mean a lot. I saw the battle scenes in mind’s eye as an anime. They were so preposterous, that they could only be imagined as cartoons. However, it can be said that they were entertaining, at least at some level. The book had some slightly racist, antigovernment and pro weapon slant. Every single gun was described by the make and the caliber.
The book was fairly entertaining, but nowhere Hugo worthy. It didn’t really work as itself, the writing was ok, but not unique, and the plot wasn’t really surprising or complex.

Still satisfying. The author nerfed the two over-powered heroes, paving the way for more stories in this world.

Good ending to this trilogy. Lots of battle!