Bring the Fire

The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy, Book 3

De: Craig Schaefer

Narrado por: Susannah Jones

“We brought you here to answer a single question. God is dead. Vanessa Roth and Marie Reinhart are responsible. We want to know how they did it.”

That was where the story began. This is where it all ends.

Believing her lover has been killed, Nessa - the living archetype of the wicked witch and a fairy tale brought to murderous life - flies across the Mojave Desert on a mission of vengeance. Meanwhile, Marie is stranded on a dystopian, parallel Earth, forced to confront her own dark side as she comes face-to-face with the architect of an insidious plot.

Their quest will take them from candlelit caverns to a bloody, rain-soaked gunfight in the heart of the Vegas Strip; from the ruins of an ancient occult battlefield, where unspeakable creatures prowl derelict warships, to the very gates of heaven.

Nessa and Marie are characters from the first story ever told, trapped in an endless cycle of tragedy, death, and rebirth. But not this time. They’re hunting for their creator, for the answers, and for the justice they’ve been denied. They’re hunting for their happily-ever-after, determined to rewrite their story’s ending once and for all. And God help anyone who stands in their way.

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A great ending to the story

Susannah Jones again was superb. There is an opening for more, but I'm perfectly happy the way it ended.

Ending a very long journey!

Bring the Fire
The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy, Book 3
By: Craig Schaefer
Narrated by: Susannah Jones
This ends a very long journey in a satisfying conclusion! I liked how the story unfolds, throw an investigation of a person and this is the story. There are breaks to remind that this is where the story is coming from. I just put a plug in for the Daniel Faust novels which I thought were tremendously better! So if you have finished this series go to his other series, Daniel Faust!
The narration on this book was excellent!

A Masterpiece

This trilogy was amazing start to finish. Brought all sorts of long-running plot threads to a head and answered some of the central mysteries of the setting. Did not disappoint. So glad it sold better than the author's last passion project.

magnificent!!

Mr Schaefer has outDone himself!!
i can only believe he has a Muse at his shoulder when he writes, because everything he’s taken from the Ether and made into here is …mystical, magical, divine. literally!
fabulous from start to finish and honestly, there could have been no one better than Ms Jones to bring this masterpiece to life!
💞💞💞

Required reading for world building info

The author does a lot of borrowing: Constantine, Oceans 11, Wheel of Time, and others. Here he borrowed from Gnosticism to round out his universe. It's a good idea knowing what gnosticism is to avoid confusion going in.

It bends a lot of the universes rules with no explanation, such as how there can be multiple story archetype characters.

Over 3 books I can't think of a reason why the knight was a woman, as it adds nothing but lesbian erotica and forces a straight woman gay, To become the primordial archetype of a protector knight literally everyone would think of a large, hulking man with superhuman fighting skills.
We get a mediocre NYC detective, what?
Even in this universe it doesn't make sense. imagine of the Wicked witch was a super nerdy accountant from Des Moines, it just takes you out of the story. I think it was just a forced choice to go with the feminist tropes common among hippie Wicca types in the NW.

All of the other archetype story characters play out their natures fully, especially the Enemy and Wicked witch. All except for the knight who is supposed to be skilled in war and strategy. But Marie never comes through with anything nearly as skilled in fighting or strategy as Harmony Black or Daniel Foust - one literally a knight. Other than her submissive behavior to the which, she's very different from her predecessors.

Based on the information from Harmony Black, Daniel foust, and these books I thought the ending was going to be obvious. It was not. Many of my expectations were subverted in a good way, but the ending wasn't satisfying for me.
The MC is a bad person, and having that character come out as a very big deal moving forward seemed anticlimactic. Sure the Kings are terrible, and having somebody with the power of getting rid of them is good. But if that's person has a capacity for the same evil, what's the point? If Stalin killed Hitler, he'd still be an evil person that killed 100 million people.

She's not at the same level of anti-hero you root for like Jessie Temple or Daniel Faust. She's just an asshole who wants to take over the universe, on a personal mission of vengeance.

I feel like it came from the feminist trope of bad guys being men (Kings), and while the boss bitch witch is terrible, she's automatically better than the men she destroys because of "lady magic." Like a female Stalin or Mao or Hitler would be better, cause the patriarchy or something.

All that said it was an enjoyable book. not as good as a second, much better than the first. And these are required reading if you want to know about what's going on in the rest of the Daniel Faust universe.