Review: Very Disappointing to This Series Reader
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2012
As a whole, this is an excellent science fiction series. However, we've all read various series with other books where, after a time, the series just should have stopped and the last book should not have been written: you become attached to the characters and the storyline, and you want to remember the good parts and not have your lasting memory be something bad. As someone who has enjoyed the series, this book was very disappointing on many fronts.I think part of the problem is there has been such a long time since the last book in the series was published, and despite reading the books prior to this one again so I wouldn't miss anything it was almost as if this was written by someone else or maybe the author has changed his writing style or focus. This book was all over the place and jumped from scene to scene (and forward and backward in time) without any real sense of purpose from one chapter to the next: it was almost as if chapters had been written individually over a period of time then stitched together at the end to compile a really long book. One of the better qualities of other books in the series was the technology and events in most of the series was believable from a layman's standpoint but rather than science fiction, the book really took a hard left into more of a fantasy book where you wanted to call "b.s." on some of the technological happenings as well as the storyline.The ending was rather abrupt and felt incomplete, and there is the appearance there could be a sequel. Please don't, or you risk the further ruin of a good series.