Review: Happy, but...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 7, 2012
These books...The first one I absolutely loved, Tag's story and his unique abilities are original and interesting.Then the next 3 are... repetitive. They get bigger, the enemy fleets keep coming, new (albeit fascinating and imaginative) enemy races in each book and each one has a larger fleet. The next one will have to have billions, as this one had hundreds of millions, the one before that had tens of millions...The events in the story itself are not predictable, fascinating fictional technological ideas and events. I really enjoy the battle scenarios and solutions for specific problems as the armies learn from each other.It is the ending that is predictable, the best possible outcome is always the result. There is no annihilation in "Annihilation". I don't want to ruin anyone's reading, but the ends are very... Disney. Too clean.Imagine a chase scene where the pursuant decides to let the pursued go (after all, he said he was sorry). So they stop, walk into a coffee shop and have the best coffee they ever had. The end.That's how I felt at the end of Tommy's tale.Also, the grammar! I think this one was transcribed by a child, because "tho" is not "though" and I started to cringe every time the word "totally" was used. As others mentioned, the bad grammar became quite distracting.All in all, worth reading. I would not pay 5$ for these books, I borrow them with Prime. Definitely enjoyable, but the drop in quality and the repetitive story are becoming a disappointment.