This book series almost fits perfectly into my favourite niche of increasing bizarre, funny sci-fi/horror with slightly morally dubious characters. So it was always going to be pretty well liked by me.

Really enjoyed the ending of this book series particularly, but the whole series was very consistent, delivered what you would expect, and had characters I really enjoyed developing over the 3 books.

Brockway finished his trilogy of gonzo punk horror novels in fine form. Our ragtag heroes take the fight back to the angels and empty ones, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun.

In this installment, the gang teams up with a surprisingly helpful empty one named Zang, who used to hang out with Carey back in the day. One particularly great sequence happens in a dilapidated fancy suburb that fell off the side of a cliff after an earthquake, where barely functional unnoticeables go through the motions of daily life in absolute darkness.

My only regret in finishing this is that I want more books with this combination of humor, horror, and surrealism all thrown together in a narrative blender, and I’m not sure where I’m going to find that kind of experience. I may pick up Brockway’s earlier books, but he doesn’t have a particularly deep body of work yet.

Finishing a book, or series in the case, always makes me melancholy. I liked the Vicious Circuit Trilogy. I like the narcissistic zombies and how it ended.

A fine conclusion, although a few plot points felt a bit forced, and the characters Zang and Jie could have had more satisfying arcs.

Thanks to Tor Books for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

The concluding chapter to this gory, gritty, horror series! I highly recommend picking up books one and two (THE UNNOTICEABLES and THE EMPTY ONES) because this is not a standalone. I read this entire trilogy right in a row and I loved every page of it.

Carey and Randall have now made it to LA during the height of the 80's punk scene. They get mixed into Chinatown and they encounter a young Chinese girl who is an Empty One. She runs things in this area and Zang, an Empty One and her ex-boyfriend, is turning against her. Carey and Randall need to determine whether or not he is on their side.

Kaitlyn, Carey, and Jackie have returned to LA. Kaitlyn has been having visions telling her to kill all of the angels - but in order to do so they need to find a new angel. Will they be able to find them and be able to kill them all?

I don't want to give away too much more for those that haven't read the series or that are waiting to read book three. This series got better and better! I said it in my other reviews and I'll say it again, the unique premise is what had me hooked from page one (in book one!). This book doens't hold back with the gore, grit, and dark humor that the other two have. Talk about a way to go out in a series.

Overall, if you've read books one and two, then what are you waiting for? If you're debating picking this series up, I have one question. Do you like a funny side to your horror stories? If you said yes, then go get book one!

I give this one 5/5 stars!

LOVED the conclusion to this trilogy! This was the first book where I felt like I was more invested in the past storyline than the present one. I sort of knew exactly what was going to happen in the present, until the very end, and there wasn't as much plot as I was expecting. Carey's past storyline, on the other hand, was really powerful and moving, and made me really understand the character and how he had gotten where he was. Very well done! It was also less gruesome than the second book, which I appreciated.