I finished the final book of the Resident Evil novelizations in one sitting in a matter of hours; I was hooked to this until 4AM. The book was good, and filled in so many details the movies did not. It gave me a new appreciation for many of the characters.

I will say, at the risk of giving some spoilers, that the sudden appropriation of Angie’s story from the second movie/novelization into Alice feels odd. Instead of the Red Queen being a representation of Dr. Ashford’s daughter, we’re instead based on co-founder’s Dr. Marcus’s daughter Alicia. Not only that, the Red Queen is still alive and is in fact also the White Queen. It’s kind of destroys the build up of the previous novelizations, but perhaps they were out of ideas or regretted losing Angie as a character.

There’s some continuity issues, such as instead of having a male president like in the previous novelizations, we’re told the president was female.

Either way, I still enjoyed the ride and thrill of this novel. I loved finding out about the fate of Becky, and the results of the airborne antivirus giving the T-Virus it’s final absolution; well, except for what survived underground in the labs. Perhaps they were hoping for a continuation of the movie series later down the line.

Also, loved the humor of Alicia and Wesker in their final moments. He deserved what he got.