Over the course of the previous books it was revealed that Wormwood was created by an ancient alien race known as Homians billions of years ago. One of the biggest mysteries of the trilogy has been what exactly is Wormwood and what is its intentions. In Rosewater the immediate impacts were also huge – the dead could become reanimated strange alien jellyfish-like monsters float in the jungles devouring the unwary and yet miraculously Wormwood’s biodome form can also cure the sick and injured drawing people to it like moths to a flame.

The initial global impacts of Wormwood’s arrival were huge - the US shut themselves off from the rest of the world the UK becomes powerless and telepaths suddenly arose in the global population becoming a valuable resource. In 2012 a giant alien lifeform known as Wormwood invaded London and after attempts to remove it resurfaced in Rosewater a small settlement in Nigeria. This trilogy has been a brilliantly creative tale of an alien invasion we just don’t see very often. NB - there will be some spoilers for the previous books I would like to thank Nazia from Orbit Books for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review I have already reviewed the Clarke Award winning Rosewater and its sequel The Rosewater Insurrection (reviews at the links) so let’s see how this saga ends… The Wormwood trilogy by Tade Thomson is now complete. Here I’m covering the end of a fantastic science fiction series that has rightly been lauded the last few years. A reminder this section of the blog is where I look at series and how they evolve and finish.

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