Nightworld - F. Paul Wilson > Reviews > The Sun Will Never Rise Again

Author's product rating:   

Would you listen to it again?	Absolutely
Story	Outstanding
Characters	Outstanding
Listenability	Once you start it, you won't be able to switch it off!
How does it compare to audio works by the same author?	Excellent

Advantages:	A superb rivetting Armageddon Novel
Disadvantages:	Not to everyone's taste

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

A few excerpts from this stunning horror fantasy novel:

- On May 17th , the sun was late

- WWOR-TV

CAMERON: “But Dr Sapir, how exactly did you arrive at these figures?”
SAPIR : “I simply charted the times of the sunrise and sunset and the
resultant hours of daylight since Wednesday on a graph. Those
figures yielded the curve you see here. I have merely continued
that curve.”
CAMERON: “And that shows…..?”
SAPIR : “All you have to do is follow it. We’ll have approximately
eleven hours of sunlight today; slightly less than ten hours
tomorrow, Monday; about eight hours and forty minutes of
daylight on Tuesday, about seven hours on Wednesday, and – you
see how steep the curve is becoming – four hours and forty two
minutes of light on Thursday.”
CAMERON: “And on Friday?”
SAPIR : “On Friday, nothing”
CAMERON: “Nothing?”
SAPIR : “Correct. If the curve holds true, the sun will set at 3:01 PM
on Thursday and will not rise again. There will be no sunrise
on Friday……”

This novel is the culmination of F. Paul Wilson’s Adversary series and is probably the easiest one along with “The Keep”, to pick up. I’ve reviewed the first two in the series, but the next three (“The Touch”, “Reprisal” and “Reborn”) are no longer in my possession and difficult to get hold of and I can’t trust my addled old memory to do them justice. You can read this without having read the previous novels in the series and you can refer to the Repairman Jack web site to get the background you require if you can’t get your mitts on the actual books. The site is at:

www.repairmanjack.com

Most writers in this genre have at least one apocalyptic end of the world novel in them and this is Wilson’s. There are some similarities with a certain Mr. Stephen King esquire, especially numerous references to songs and films throughout the book by a couple of insane DJs who try to keep an information service going as the end of the world occurs around them.

The characters from the previous novels meet up for a final confrontation in which Good or Evil will triumph. Rasalom is the force of Evil who begins his domination of the world by the shortening of the days. This alerts Glaeken (the representative of the force that opposes evil) who has taken up residence in a block overlooking Central Park. In order to defeat Rasalom Glaeken must assemble a weapon , from two necklaces (see The Tomb) and the remains of his word (see The Keep) and the mysterious Dat-tay-vao a mysterious healing power that destroys its host.

Rasalom feeds off fear and creates a hole in Central Park from which he sends out his emissaries to terrorise the world during the hours of darkness. The opponents of Rasalom led by Glaeken and including Repairman Jack are the only ones that stand in the way of Rasalom’s world domination.

The novel is frightening , but seldom resorts to explicit gory description, and maintains the pace from start to end of the 440 pages. One of my absolute favourites and a must have for any fan of the genre.