The Venerate Salvation (The Venerate Saga, #3)

by Troy Dukart

[zooloo1983]

Where do I begin? How when I had a moment to read the book I was absorbed? How the descriptions within the narration transported me to all the places? How I have missed Strafe and Yessa? That I really need to drink some water after shouting at the characters for not doing as they were told?

Now I read The Venerate Order last year and it was one of my first ever book tours and I was blown away by Troy’s writing and the imagery. It really was like reading a book that could be made into a Final Fantasy game! I had forgotten a lot of what had happened, and I got confused thinking I had read the second book but I haven’t yet! So ok, I am missing a bit in the middle but it did not take away the enjoyment of this book at all! I loved being back on Earth and seeing how Yessa and Strafe, along with his twin brother Zixin were getting on! By the sounds of things, it has been a hard journey and it was not getting any better for them!

There is so much action, and the fight scenes made me tempted to get out my Xbox controller and tap A and line up my moves. It makes for great reading, the scenes are tight and intense and you can not always foresee what might happen. I adored the setting when we were in Tibet, it definitely gave you a sense of peace but also set up the foreboding of the events that were to come. It was the calm before the storm.

Even with so much going on at once, Troy manages to make it clear what is going on. You have, my favourite, the chapters split into the viewpoints of Strafe and Yessa. Seeing the Salvators, an underground group wanting to destroy the Federation, from their different viewpoints and from their different experiences since parting ways. Seeing how their lives have taken different paths in separate places and the explosion when they collide again. Everyone has definitely come a long way since book 1! Yet, their personalities still shine off the page, and all their emotions become your emotions.

However, my heart has been completely broken, when the events that unfurled and the meet up previous characters happened I got nervous and then bam…you broke me! Not quite sure if I can get past it! I had to put the book down and was tempted to do a Joey and put the book in the freezer because I did not want the outcome I had been presented with! Troy!! We need to have words!

I have adored two of the books in this series and I will be going back to read the second because then I can live in bliss and pretend that nothing ever happened!