Review: Loss - Jackie Morse Kessler

 

 

Have you ever read a book that you thought was amazing and after you had read it , you weren't sure exactly how to write about it. To me, that sums up the third book in the Riders of the Apocalypse Series in which the Previous Two "Rage" and "Hunger" have also been reviewed on my site.

Review: Loss - Book #3 Riders of the Apocalypse Series - Jackie Morse Kessler - March 2012

Now as readers of The Phantom Paragrapher will know, I love to read my fair share of Edgy Content and one of the authors that I have come to enjoy in this area is Jackie Morse Kessler , where she has taken edgy issues from Anorexia , Disease, Suicide and mixed it with a bit of mythology to create a series called The Riders of the Apocalypse. 

Each of her books focuses on one main character who has suffered a rough time and has been dealt an awful hand in life, but what each of them doesn't realise is that by their suffering they have proven stronger and Death has offered them all a second chance by rising up and taking their rightful places in the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse army to save the world from Armageddon. Loss focuses on a character named Billy who is having a bad time from extreme bullying that makes the reader want to scream and shout as no-one is doing anything about it and on-top of that he has a grandparent with Alzheimers and has to care for him when his single mother has to work to keep the house etc afloat.  For years Billy has suffered the same nightmare of the Ice-Cream Man , what will happen though when it turns out that the nightmare is stemmed from a real incident that happened when Billy was five and that the Ice-Cream Man is in fact The Rider of Pestilence and now he has gone and ended in a coma . Now it is time for the crown of Pestilence to be passed on and Billy is next in line, will he accept his new fate and serve as one of the Riders or will obstacles appear in his way and obstruct his thinking?

An amazing book that goes much more in-depth compared to the previous two books in the series which is a new turn for Jackie Morse Kessler as in "Loss' the readers are taken all the way back to the beginnings of the original Pestilence Rider.

Another great book in the Riders of the Apocalpyse series and as we all know that their were Four Horsemen , I look forward to reading when released the concluding tale.