To give you some sort of literary perspective, Apocalypse Rising is what you get when The Prophecy movies meet Terry Brook’s Word & Void series and stays firmly grounded in current times. Eric adds just enough of a slant on the traditional aspects of the elements he manipulates to keep the whole story from tumbling into a void of clichés.
There is this switching of perspective that Eric tries that is rather distracting at first and because of this it took me a little bit longer to settle into the novel. Chapters involving the main character are in first-person narrative while the rest are omniscient. It’s much more jolting to read in novel form than it was when Eric ran the story as a serial on his blog. The effect wore away after about 60 pages and the characters and plot began to take hold, you don’t notice it much after that and the pieces all start to blend as parts of the narrative whole.
It’s a short novel that’s well worth a read. I want to say more about it but fear any lengthy analysis may throw out spoilers that will ruin it for you. I’ll save the analysis for my notebook and close by telling you if you liked The Prophecy movies and read the likes of Terry Brooks then there is no doubt in my mind you will enjoy this story.
