Reborn

Reborn is the fourth of six books in The Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson and unlike The Tomb and The Touch, it is clearly a sequel to The Keep. Also unlike its three predecessors, it is the most conventional of the four and even explicitly references a popular NY Times bestseller with similar themes, but even at its most conventional, Wilson manages to keep the reader guessing. I prefer when Wilson devotes an entire chapter to one character’s perspective as he did in the previous three instead of switching throughout the book with no pattern, or at least no pattern that I could discern (there probably was a pattern, but I didn’t notice it). I love that no one in a Wilson book ever emerges unscathed, unchanged or untouched by the book’s events regardless of whether the ending is happy or not. There are “good” and “bad” characters, but their actions don’t necessarily reflect their spiritual state. Wilson never makes it easy for the reader to root for a side. Reborn clearly sets the stage for a sequel unlike the first three, and I