Book Review: Unholy Warrior

My rating: 5 badass stars

Damn! This was one hell of a story! 

You know those cool Mad Max movies with edge of the seat all hell breaking loose kind of action? Unholy Warrior is a little bit like them.

Imagine the Mad Max type of action set on a wintry landscape with a badass female lead. Add in a pinch of Finnish legends and myths, top them up with a good number of raw, gut-wrenching torture scenes and serve them in a vivid first person POV and there you go! Unholy Warrior - A book I read in one sitting biting my nails at times, wanting to punch someone at others and not so silently chanting 'Go! Go! Go!' at others.
As for cussing like a drunk sailor who just dropped his last bottle of rum while reading one paragraph or another, or cheering when a knife found it's mark - I'm gonna have to plead the fifth on that.



Twenty-five years after the nuclear war, the world is still a harsh, frozen place. Second Lieutenant Rebane Nordstrom, a sniper in the ranks of a Russian elite reconnaissance unit, is captured by the EU forces. Imprisoned and accused of assassinating the EU president, Rebane faces her worst nightmare in the form of Major Weisser, a man who commands the European Union counter-intelligence with an iron fist.

Thrust into a world ruled by torture, and constant fear, the battered, weakened Rebane knows her only chance of survival is to escape from the fortress that holds her captive. Faced with certain death, she becomes an unstoppable force and escapes the womb of hell. But her battle is far from over. A race across the post-apocalyptic badlands starts, but the man hunting her is a force of nature. Weisser destroys everything in his path to get Rebane back and achieve his goal.

The woman's only hope is that the Invisible Zone—the furthest corner of sub-zero Scandinavia—will wipe any trace of her existence and keep the madman off her back. In an arctic weather that wipes out armies, Rebane has only herself to rely on, as well as a little help from Spirit animals and ancient Nordic deities.



Fast-paced, gripping and compelling, this post-apocalyptic spy thriller is one roller-coaster ride from first to last page.
Vivid and unembellished torture and rape scenes written in first person POV from the victim's perspective had me wanting to reach through the pages and throttle the damn bastards! They were so well written!

Military forces, tactics, weaponry and fight scenes, everything seems meticulously researched and downright real. And the same goes for the survival scenes, during Rebane's flight through the snowy landscape. Kudos to the author for pulling all that off.

A great plot with surprising twists, an awesome female lead who, despite being as badass as it gets doesn't cross the line and turn into a Mary Sue, one hell of race for survival with stakes as high as it gets set on a setting that practically leaps off the page, as well as a little mystery to keep you guessing now and then. Unholy Warrior has it all!

It's a damn fine book if you ask me and I highly recommend it to any post-apocalyptic spy thriller fans out there.

Do bear in mind however that it's not for the faint of heart. It has graphic torture and rape scenes, with a lot of violence and gore in between.

Hugs and light everyone
and happy reading.

Check out this book and more of Rebecka Jäger over at https://rebeckajager.com/