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Jubal Van Zandt #6
Last Rites
“The heart-wrenching, brilliant, and breathtakingly gorgeous conclusion to the greatest story ever told…” - Jubal Van Zandt
Jubal Van Zandt is out of time. The beautiful corpse plague is winning, slowly encasing him in a jeweled coffin for one. His last shot with Carina is slipping through his numbing fingers, and every enemy he’s made along the way is breathing down his neck.
But the greatest thief in history isn’t ready to roll over and die just yet. Not while an unbreakable ultra-security prison needs breaking and an unkillable jungle hag needs killing.
Together again for one last ride, Jubal and Carina will wade through the deadly cesspools of their pasts, cheat psychotic grudge-holding immortals, and run knuckguns blazing into the teeth of a rotting cyborg army.
The thief and the knight are about to perpetrate their greatest betrayal yet, and this time Death is going to get the shaft.
Jubal Van Zandt is out of time. The beautiful corpse plague is winning, slowly encasing him in a jeweled coffin for one. His last shot with Carina is slipping through his numbing fingers, and every enemy he’s made along the way is breathing down his neck.
But the greatest thief in history isn’t ready to roll over and die just yet. Not while an unbreakable ultra-security prison needs breaking and an unkillable jungle hag needs killing.
Together again for one last ride, Jubal and Carina will wade through the deadly cesspools of their pasts, cheat psychotic grudge-holding immortals, and run knuckguns blazing into the teeth of a rotting cyborg army.
The thief and the knight are about to perpetrate their greatest betrayal yet, and this time Death is going to get the shaft.
- GenresFantasy
298 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 5, 2021
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5 people want to read
About the author
Eden Hudson
51 books314 followersI am being forced against my will by Goodreads to have a capital E at the beginning of my name, even though the correct spelling is "eden." So there's that.
But also . . .
I am invincible. I am a mutant. I have 3 hearts and was born with no eyes. I had eyes implanted later. I didn't have hands, either, just stumps. When my eyes were implanted they asked if I would like hands as well and I said, "Yes, I'll take those," and pointed with my stump. But sometimes I'm a hellbender peeking out from under a rock. When it rains, I live in a music box.
But I'm also a tattoo addict, coffee junkie, drummer, and aspiring skateboarder. Jesus actually is my homeboy.
But also . . .
I am invincible. I am a mutant. I have 3 hearts and was born with no eyes. I had eyes implanted later. I didn't have hands, either, just stumps. When my eyes were implanted they asked if I would like hands as well and I said, "Yes, I'll take those," and pointed with my stump. But sometimes I'm a hellbender peeking out from under a rock. When it rains, I live in a music box.
But I'm also a tattoo addict, coffee junkie, drummer, and aspiring skateboarder. Jesus actually is my homeboy.
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October 7, 2021
Why isn’t it a bestseller????
Brilliant conclusion to the series! The writing is phenomenal, the plotting intricate, demented and perverse, the dialogue snappy and the characters unforgettable! It is brutal, dirty, gory, funny, sexy, bloody and violent. This series should be a national or world bestseller!!!! I love it more then all other hundreds of books I read and reviewed! I received advanced copy but bought the book as soon as it was formally published even though I could read it via my Kindle Unlimited account! I love it so much I savored every page and didn’t want it to end. Jubal was in the rare form scheming, undermining, under handing, fucking and completely as always totally in love with himself and maybe Bloodslinger. The end was fittingly perverse.
Brilliant conclusion to the series! The writing is phenomenal, the plotting intricate, demented and perverse, the dialogue snappy and the characters unforgettable! It is brutal, dirty, gory, funny, sexy, bloody and violent. This series should be a national or world bestseller!!!! I love it more then all other hundreds of books I read and reviewed! I received advanced copy but bought the book as soon as it was formally published even though I could read it via my Kindle Unlimited account! I love it so much I savored every page and didn’t want it to end. Jubal was in the rare form scheming, undermining, under handing, fucking and completely as always totally in love with himself and maybe Bloodslinger. The end was fittingly perverse.
October 7, 2021
No words
I have no words…no words….this series left me astounded. The ending was just too much. Jubal, Carina, and yeah, Nick too…I could not have imagined this last book in the series to have ended this way…Towards the end, I kept thinking “it” just can’t be, can “it”? And then it took everything l had to not cheat and read the ending before I got there. It was just too much. I think I said that already. I’m sitting here laughing and crying, astounded. Completely gobsmacked. I’ve always wanted to use that word in a sentence. Gobsmacked. eden, you tricked me and I just adore you for it.
I have no words…no words….this series left me astounded. The ending was just too much. Jubal, Carina, and yeah, Nick too…I could not have imagined this last book in the series to have ended this way…Towards the end, I kept thinking “it” just can’t be, can “it”? And then it took everything l had to not cheat and read the ending before I got there. It was just too much. I think I said that already. I’m sitting here laughing and crying, astounded. Completely gobsmacked. I’ve always wanted to use that word in a sentence. Gobsmacked. eden, you tricked me and I just adore you for it.
October 5, 2021
When Revenge of the Bloodsinger came out, if you'd told me that Carina and Jubal's adventure, I would have called you a shamefaced truthteller because of *course* it was going to end well for them, and woe to anyone who got in the way.
Last Rites is a worthy successor to that first romp through the jungles of Soam. You're fatally hooked within the first three chapters, and the pacing never flags. It's hilarious. It kicks ass. It has all the neck-breaking changes of fate your heart could want. The characters--except for Jubal, of course--have changed and grown, and gained perspective, and their definitions of love and self-love aren't as self-destructive anymore while retaining the wit, charm, and deadly competence that made the first book so much fun.
And maybe I lied a bit about Jubal. Maybe his timeless perfection is making his knee lock up, and he can't roll a coin across his fingers anymore. But that's part of the fun, too, isn't it? Finding new ways to be the greatest thief on the Revived Earth?
A fitting, merry close to the series, even if a good number of people do die at the end.
Last Rites is a worthy successor to that first romp through the jungles of Soam. You're fatally hooked within the first three chapters, and the pacing never flags. It's hilarious. It kicks ass. It has all the neck-breaking changes of fate your heart could want. The characters--except for Jubal, of course--have changed and grown, and gained perspective, and their definitions of love and self-love aren't as self-destructive anymore while retaining the wit, charm, and deadly competence that made the first book so much fun.
And maybe I lied a bit about Jubal. Maybe his timeless perfection is making his knee lock up, and he can't roll a coin across his fingers anymore. But that's part of the fun, too, isn't it? Finding new ways to be the greatest thief on the Revived Earth?
A fitting, merry close to the series, even if a good number of people do die at the end.
November 3, 2021
This series is one of my first recommendations to anyone who asks me if I know of anything interesting to read. It's fantasy, it's sci-fi, it's psychology, it's... amazing. The whole series is.
This is the conclusion to the Jubal Van Zandt series, of course, as one could imagine with such a title, and the whole series is a picture of ... something, but I don't know how I'd describe it. It's got LitRPG, it's heavy on magic and science fiction, and along the way we get a set of psychological profiles that are as deep as they're wide.
The conclusion wraps up a lot of details that felt like ... just amazing characterization and world-building when they're first encountered, and it all loops back into a cohesive whole when it could have been just as satisfying if those details were just elements of the world in which Van Zandt lives. In the end, there's a conclusion that leaves you wanting more, but doesn't leave you feeling like there was anything left to give.
Just an amazing series.
This is the conclusion to the Jubal Van Zandt series, of course, as one could imagine with such a title, and the whole series is a picture of ... something, but I don't know how I'd describe it. It's got LitRPG, it's heavy on magic and science fiction, and along the way we get a set of psychological profiles that are as deep as they're wide.
The conclusion wraps up a lot of details that felt like ... just amazing characterization and world-building when they're first encountered, and it all loops back into a cohesive whole when it could have been just as satisfying if those details were just elements of the world in which Van Zandt lives. In the end, there's a conclusion that leaves you wanting more, but doesn't leave you feeling like there was anything left to give.
Just an amazing series.
October 29, 2021
Publishing Date: 2021
Genre: SciFi
Rating: 4.4/5
Review: This novel is mostly SciFi in orientation with a little Fantasy thrown in.
This conclusion to the series does not disappoint in any way, other than there will be no more Jubal to entertain our nights with.
Once again one of my favorite authors makes a grand finale’ with a slight possibility that this series could be revisited down the road.
The authors epilogue is sad and very hard to read as it mirrors my brothers untimely end.
Here is to all the Jubals’ that are out there. RIP.
Genre: SciFi
Rating: 4.4/5
Review: This novel is mostly SciFi in orientation with a little Fantasy thrown in.
This conclusion to the series does not disappoint in any way, other than there will be no more Jubal to entertain our nights with.
Once again one of my favorite authors makes a grand finale’ with a slight possibility that this series could be revisited down the road.
The authors epilogue is sad and very hard to read as it mirrors my brothers untimely end.
Here is to all the Jubals’ that are out there. RIP.
December 17, 2021
A great finish to the series!
I won’t explain this weird series. If you’ve read them you’ll get it and if not you won’t. This final book wraps everything up to a satisfying ending.
I won’t explain this weird series. If you’ve read them you’ll get it and if not you won’t. This final book wraps everything up to a satisfying ending.
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