Book Review: 14; The Fold; Dead Moon & Terminus (Threshold) Peter Clines

Author: Peter Clines
Book: 14 / The Fold / Dead Moon / Terminus
Year: 2012 / 2015 / 2019 /2020
Pages: 372 / 384 / 400 / 333

Part of Series: Threshold
Reading Time: February 2022,, June 2022 And July 2022
Rating: 7 / 8 / 4 / 6 Stars

I have to say that all of them I've heard via audiobook

Well well well

This took me a bit more time than previous novels even if it's better than the third... After finish all the novels , so far in the series I thought I made a review for all the novels at the same time...

This is going to have a lot of spoilers so ye've been warned...

Spoilers Ahead

Basically in the first we follow a guy going to live in a very cheap apartment. Strange things start to happen on that apartment, like different sizes rooms or strange green cockroaches and stuff. There he meets a Indian girl who is investigating stuff in the building. Other occupants within the building start to be interest as the two strange duo. So this is more mystery based , less horror. By the 3 quarters of the novel we get glimpses of lovecraftian monsters within the skies and we learn that the building is some dampening field that behaves like an anti-monster... We also see glimpses of other worlds.

The second novel "The Fold" is a bit different. It's less mystery and more thriller. We've got this professor who has perfect memory and he goes to investigate a scientific breakthrough about wormhole - but unfortunately not all things are not what they seem. After all, we all want to go from one place to another immediately. As I said, some stuff start to happen, small things like different coins go from one place to another, people start to change a bit - but all is due to stress right? It's very interesting and I really enjoy this one. Everything clicked. The main character is preferable to first one..

The third novel is not mystery or thriller BUT horror - zombie horror stuff. So people have colonize the moon and people are buried there... why (?) but after a crash of meteorite the dead start to walk. It's a very fast pace novel with some interesting characters... Unfortunately it didn't click for me, either the zombie stuff OR the big bad guy who to my understanding is an anciest monster adrift from space... the connections are very vague to none - although I would say that the "monsters" on the first and second could be the same as this one but only the brain?

The fourth novel, Terminus I thought it could be the last (Terminus - End?) but after reading some stuff a fifth novel is out or being released. This one connects with the second - just after the second. We've got a three guys who join in a island with trees and animals and a building like the one in LA. Why? Well let's investigate... The connections to Lovecraftian monsters are bigger since now there are cults of mutants beings that want those beings to be released, there are monster from a different complete tree of evolution from humanity. There are a lot connections including the return of the some old characters. There are some hidden eggs that connects to other novels. The monsters invaded everything and humanity is doom. We learn more about other... well thresholds, different earths and such.

The ending is the weakest part because it seems it just wanted to end the tale... HEAVY SPOILERS - so monsters invade world A - lets go to World B. OK cool we're safe. Bah... Disappointing...