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The trilogy · two years after book 2

The Night Eternal

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The trilogy's finale: one last shot at ending the Master

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Do you need to read it?

Yes. It's part of the chronological order leading up to the end of the saga.

Where it falls in the order

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Quick recap

Two years after the blasts, nuclear winter has left the world nearly sunless, and the vampires run a police state. Strong humans were wiped out, the rest enslaved, and the weakest held in blood camps. Eph has pulled away from everyone. The Master, in Bolivar's body, has taken Zack as his protégé and is grooming him to be his next host. Nora has left Eph for Fet, who works on the Occido Lumen with Quinlan. Biblical flashbacks trace the vampires to the archangel Ozryel. Eph cracks the book: the Master began on one of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River. The survivors set off a nuke there, and Eph, Zack, Quinlan and the Master die. The remaining vampires crumble, and humanity starts to rebuild.

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What changed on screen

  1. ChangeOne book, two seasons

    This book covered S3 and S4, 10 episodes each. The show picked up the pace to wrap things up.

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  2. ChangeZack and the Master, TV version

    Cuse noted that Zack's role in the books is big and said the show would do "our own version" of his bond with the Master.

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  3. ChangeA shorter time jump

    The book opens two years after the last one. On screen, the jump before S4 is nine months.

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