Terminus

De: Peter Clines

Narrado por: Ray Porter

Murdoch’s past has finally come crashing down on him. His former girlfriend. His Family. He’s been happily avoiding them for ages, trying to live something close to a normal life. But now he’s been drawn back into another one of their ludicrous attempts to bring about the end of all things.

Chase has spent the past year just trying to get away. Trying to escape the memories that won’t stop following him, the moment when his life collapsed. He’s traveled around the world trying to stay ahead of it all, but those final moments may be catching up with him at last.

Anne is tired of living in the past. She’s finally looking to the future and embracing her destiny. She’s going to lead the Family forward on their greatest, final crusade to destroy the hated Machine of their long-time adversary.

Their paths will intersect in the middle of nowhere, on an uncharted island where the walls of reality are thin...and an apocalyptic threat is tearing its way through.

©2020 Peter Clines (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.

Exactly what I wanted from the series!

I don't think anything will top 14, but this is a very close second place!
Clines started out his 'Threshold' series so strongly, I worried he'd never get back to the same level. Terminus assuages that concern as it continues with the plot developed in 14 and takes it further in to the yawning void!
If you were as disappointed by Dead Moon as I was, then this will come to you as a breath of fresh air.

Lazy Try

This book is currently sitting at 4.5 stars on Audible on 2/19/2020 with about 1,500 ratings. It is a unfortunately a lazy stab at the series and isn’t nearly as interesting or enticing as 14 or the fold. No real strong mystery and just piggy backs on the other books skeletons. I think I’m off the Clines bandwagon for now.

Somewhat disjointed with a lot of dead ends

This could have been a much better novel. There was so many plot lines left unexplained I kind of lost interest in really listening to the book until the last hour or so. The finish was anticlimactic and hollow. Still worth the one credit but not a second listen.

Lacking

I normally love PC’s books, and this one fit well within his world, but there wasn’t a single character that I cared about.
Overall, it was well done and an interesting idea but ultimately it felt forced.

Threshold is losing its lustre

Clines is a great author, I loved the first 2 books in this series; but after the last 2 I'm not sure I'll be bothering with another entry if he writes one. The stories are lacking the mystery that made 13 and the fold so compelling, they're trending towards tepid horror novels now with no real surprises to be had. It's time for him to move on to a new series.

Lost meets Gilligan island

Good book to kill a credit. It seemed a lot like the TV show LOST. Not great but not bad either.

A return to what makes the series fun

This book brought back the feeling of mystery woven through the first two entries in the series. Clines does a great job of giving small answers and hints that lead to more questions. Just as importantly, those questions receive actual answers through the story.

I also appreciate that prior characters are used, but sparingly enough to not make it feel crowded.

Well done.

Not close to 14 or Fold

I am really sorry to write this review because I had big hopes for this book after having read the reviews and I literally jumped on it.
Unfortunatelly it is based on similar elements such as cockroaches, Tesla, multiverse and neither the plot nor the base of the story is as solid as 14 or Fold. All the story is all of a sudden solved with multiverse magic as if the writer had to finish this book and do something else. It is more or less based on the fame of those two previous books and were you unlucky to read this one first from the Peter Clines collection you might hesitate to read another.
Ray Porter is fantastic as usual and helps A LOT to pull you in to the story with all the feeling he gives.
All in all it is not a disaster but his other works surpass this one by far...

Not the best in the series

if you have not, you should read/listen to 14 and The Fold before this. It will help to put much of what is happening in context. Performance is top-notch. As for the story; I'd rate 14 a 5, The Fold a 4, and this one a 3. It suffers from poor character development but excels at atmosphere.

Pretty good conclusion

Guilty Admission: while I LOVED 14 and enjoyed The Fold almost as much, I skipped Dead Moon due to the sheer number of bad reviews. I did not want to leave the universe of the Kavach building, however, so I jumped straight to Terminus.

All in all, it was pretty good. A solid conclusion (I assume) to the series read in excellent fashion as always, with a clever and complex plot and good storytelling. But none of the series have been able to capture that initial mysterious magic of 14… Very glad I read this, but unlike 14 I don’t think I will be rereading it anytime soon.