The One Impossible Labyrinth by Matthew ReillyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The biggest series Matthew Reilly has written yet comes to its long awaited Grand Finale. Even as the first three books formed a Two Part Trilogy, it was still pretty clear that there would be more to come given the countdown nature of the books' titles, and when Reilly began work on the middle entry in the series, the fourth novel, he made it clear that that would be merely the first of a four-part narrative bigger than any he has attempted before. Well, the last part of this increasingly apocalyptic four-part arc is here, and Reilly has delivered some of the best set pieces in his literary career. Though there are multiple labyrinths in this book, each one among the most imaginative such examples of that particular noun (there has to be something in the water in Australia, because Garth Nix also gave us the excellent Great Maze in Sir Thursday), there is one in particular that stands out head and shoulders above all others. You'll know it when you see it. And when you finish this book, you, like me, will declare ave atque vale to one of the finest heroes in modern action literature. A hero who deserves a film adaptation to become the next big franchise now that we're approaching an ending point on the likes of Indiana Jones and Mission: Impossible. Even if those movies would easily have budgets bigger than Avatar.
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