Apex

Mercedes Lackey — 2017

Being a member of the Elite Hunter Command imperils Joy in more ways than one. In their latest clash with Othersiders, the army of monsters nearly wiped them out. Apex City is safe for now. But within the city barriers, Joy must wage a different kind of war. The corrupt and powerful PsiCorps is determined to usurp the Hunters as chief defenders of Apex City and Joy is now squarely in their crosshairs. Unused to playing political games, she has very few people she can truly trust-not even Josh, her first friend in Apex City, who broke up with her when it became too dangerous for a Psimon to be dating a Hunter. Then Josh comes to Joy for help. He fears that Abigail Drift, the head of PsiCorps, will soon use him in her twisted experiments designed to empower PsiCorps and render Hunters superfluous--a scheme that's already killed off dozens of Psimons. Joy manages to smuggle Josh to safety, but he cannot evade Drift forever As Joy faces ever more powerful Othersiders, she is helped by the most surprising ally imaginable---the same Folk Mage she once met in battle on the train to Apex City. But can Joy trust the most cunning and treacherous of all Othersiders? In the thrilling finale to Mercedes Lackey's #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy, Joy must risk everything to end a brutal war before she loses all she's ever loved.

Reviews

Jessica Williamson@jlw_writes

Dec 5, 2021

*May 2021 Re-read* That character death still hurts me. I think I liked this better than the first time I read it. There were still continuity issues, but things made more sense overall due to me having read everything twice. I still really adore this series. *original review* 3.75 Stars While I didn't like this concluding novel as much as the first two, it definitely had its high points. Honestly for me, where it was lacking is the open-ended-ness of it all. Also, continuity errors. A few times over the "best" way to kill the same type of Othersider would change from the last book to this one, or for some unknown reason, they wouldn't use the most obvious way to kill something. It seemed like this was just to make it feel like things were direr. I enjoyed the Trilogy as a whole and this book wasn't horrible by any means, I did really enjoy it. The series as a whole is definitely worth a read.