Wasn't as huge a fan of this one. I think the transition from BZRK being the "noble but questionable" organization into this corrupt, morally horrible organization within like 20 pages was too abrupt, and the Lear reveal happening totally in the third book was off-putting. The tone of the whole book differed from the previous two, and Lear's reason behind the chaos and madness (apocalypse, hence the title) was never fully explained. It wasn't horrible, but it was a total world destruction with not a ton of logic behind it. Also, the focus totally shifting from the Armstrong brothers to Lear didn't make a whole lot of sense since at the end of the previous book, they were all gung ho to take down the Armstrongs, so I think a gradual shift (or perhaps a fourth book after this one) to smooth the transition into the setting of Apocalypse would have been more helpful.