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Reviewed by Maria Stoica for Readers' Favorite
Inferno by William F.F. Wood is the third volume in the riveting space adventure, The Ruins of Arlandia series. The novel drops us with Calvin, Astra and their friends on a planet that is about to explode. They were dumped there and left to die by the evil Goremog race whose aim is to obliterate all life in the universe. What looks like a wild paradise, surrounded by breathtaking mountainous scenery and spring waters filled with fish, is actually a ticking time bomb. Having no weapons, no ship or protection of any kind, the small group must stay away from the dreaded Dark Terrors and figure out a way of escaping from the planet.
Although struggling to evade the imminent explosion is their most desperate objective, Calvin and Astra are in charge of a more complex mission. They need to find the ten parts of a super weapon that can annihilate all enemy technology and throw the Goremog race back into its own stone age, thus ending the war. So far, they have four segments and the current task of retrieving the fifth is not going too well, as they were captured by the Goremog. The pressure is higher than ever and they don’t even have a ship to flee the hell that is rising from the splitting crust of the dying planet.
The book relies on plot and character details from its previous volumes, but reading Inferno alone didn't diminish the pleasure I took in devouring this story. The descriptions complement the dominant action, but when Calvin looks back at the places they’ve just been during the planet’s decay, the author strikes us with rich details. Despite some gruesome dangers the characters are going through, I appreciated the clean way the experiences are written, letting the reader feel the thrill of the risk in the silence before the storm, instead of drowning in hideous detail.
Everything happens so fast and there is so much at stake that my eyes were flying over the pages. William does an excellent job in displaying just the right amount of information to keep any reader on the edge of their seat while getting used to all the intuitive technology that is maintaining life between planets. The Goremog are everywhere. The only safe place now is in hyperspace, but that will soon change.
