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Apocalypse to Go
A Nola O'Grady Novel, No 3
Katherine Kerr

Daw Books Inc.
February 2012 / ISBN: 978-0756407094
Fantasy
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Reviewed by Jan Fields

Nola O'Grady has her hands full. She's getting visitations from a deviant world -- both psychically and in the flesh. And the more she learns about her visitors, the less safe she feels. On top of this, her partner in the Apocalypse Squad keeps asking her to marry him, which is definitely not on her agenda. Nola's main focus is finding and freeing her father from a prison in another dimension. But when two of her brothers disappear pursuing the same goal, Nola will do whatever it takes to save them.

I liked the whole layered dimensions premise of this series. The idea of travelling between different and bizarre versions of our world sounds fascinating -- and dangerous. This novel has a lot going on both in terms of plot and character. Nola not only has to deal with the demands of her job on the Apocalypse Squad, which grows more complicated on every page, she also has relationship issues with family and lover. It's nice to see serious character depth in an urban fantasy series. But Apocalypse to Go doesn't pull any punches in the thriller department with bad guys who are truly horrific. I found the book compelling and complex -- definitely a good one.

Reviewer Jan Fields is the editor of Kid Magazine Writers emagazine and has written dozens of stories and articles for the children's magazine market.
Reviewed 2012
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