Title: Battle Lines
Author: Will Hill
Published: August 9th 2013, by Razorbill
Series: Department 19 book #3
Genre: YA, Adventure
Stars: 4/5
It's always darkest before dawn.
Secret government unit Department 19 is recovering from evil vampire Valeri Rusmanov's deadly attack on their base. The Department’s newest member, teenage operator Jamie Carpenter, is tasked with training up a new squad, as his friends and colleagues desperately search for ways to try to stop what is coming.
The timing couldn’t be worse for a coordinated, global attack on a number of maximum security prisons and hospitals—with the already-dangerous inmates now on the loose and turned into vampires. One of the escapees has a deep connection to one of the darkest moments in the history of Department 19 and embarks on a quest that threatens to expose the existence of vampires to the public. And with each day that passes, the regenerated Dracula gets stronger, bringing Zero Hour closer.
In this third installment of the epic Department 19 series, Will Hill delivers higher—and sharper—stakes than ever before.
Secret government unit Department 19 is recovering from evil vampire Valeri Rusmanov's deadly attack on their base. The Department’s newest member, teenage operator Jamie Carpenter, is tasked with training up a new squad, as his friends and colleagues desperately search for ways to try to stop what is coming.
The timing couldn’t be worse for a coordinated, global attack on a number of maximum security prisons and hospitals—with the already-dangerous inmates now on the loose and turned into vampires. One of the escapees has a deep connection to one of the darkest moments in the history of Department 19 and embarks on a quest that threatens to expose the existence of vampires to the public. And with each day that passes, the regenerated Dracula gets stronger, bringing Zero Hour closer.
In this third installment of the epic Department 19 series, Will Hill delivers higher—and sharper—stakes than ever before.
***THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS***
I’m going to keep this review short and simply. It was an
action packed, kick arse book!
I absolutely loved EVERY.SINGLE.MINUTE.OF.IT!
Now my opinions of each main character, such as Jamie,
Larissa, Kate and Matt were pretty much the same. They all rocked in their own
individual way and I really liked how each of them progressed individually with
their own individual task at hand. Matt with the Lazarus Project, Kate with the
ISAT project, Larissa and NS9 in America and Jamie.....well Jamie is the centre
of everything pretty much. But it was nice to see each character run their own
job without relying on the group (or Jamie for that matter) to guide them.
I absolutely still adore and love Valentin. He is just a
charmer. That’s all folks. Still speaking of original vampires, there wasn’t a
lot of chapters dealing with Dracula and Valeri specifically. When we did get
to read their side of the story, it was pretty much gruesome and bloody (as it
would be). And poor, poor Admiral Steward! I fear he will not live past the
fourth book!
I also absolutely loved the opening chapter of the book. Boy
oh boy! It was like a horror film and what a way to open the story! Those
newly, strong, demented prison escapes! Ouch! I’ll be running for my life!!!
All in all, I loved it and again, I was surprised as to how
much I enjoyed it. Each chapter has twists (and of course another...or two
traitors within the Department), bloody and gore and things just keep being
added onto the already long list of things they need to deal with before zero
hour is up and Dracula finally rises. But now, they also have the fear of being
publicly acknowledged to consider now.
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