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Old World War

Old World War

Melissa F. Olson — 2022
On a sunny summer morning, nulls all over the country are attacked at the same time.In Boulder, Allison "Lex" Luther barely gets her niece to safety. In Los Angeles, Scarlett Bernard is nearly shot in the back. It seems that a powerful enemy is unhappy with the Old World leaders' plans to form a government, and they've coordinated a strike against those rare individuals who can undo magic itself.Now Lex, Scarlett, and their trusted friends have a plan to put these attackers on trial...but finding them won't be easy, and stopping them means leaving their own territories behind.The California null and the Boulder boundary witch, along with allies old and new, will have to travel to Galena, Illinois, a small town near the Mississippi River that serves as an annual playground for vampires.To protect nulls and safeguard the future of the Old World, Scarlett and Lex team up to fight a battle that's been years in the making.But Galena has secrets of her own...Old World War is the twelfth and final (for now) book in the Old World series.
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W. J. Long III@wjlongiii
4 stars
May 24, 2023

Forgive me for keeping things vague, there is a ton to spoil as this is the last book in a long running series and I want to avoid as much of it as possible. I started the Old World series ages ago and rabidly consumed each book as they were released. This one I hesitated on. My fear was that it would bring the series to a conclusion that would be bittersweet, and I was right. Miss Olson has always had a knack for characters that leap off the page and plotlines that move at blistering paces while somehow giving time for the gravity of events to linger. I love her work, and this book is no different. Her love for the city of Galena is obvious immediately and puts her cast of characters out of their element in ways that are both fun and unpredictable. The conclusion of the book goes in every direction but where you believe it will, yet seems inevitable once we get there. Aside from the speed at which the overall objective of the novel is dealt with in the end, I would say it's another stellar entry into the series and could definitely be the final word on this world that I have been enthralled with for nearly a decade. If it is over, I will miss it, though that's what repeat reads are for.