Review: A Fitting End
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2013
As I've said in a review of one of the earlier books, the concept of animals genetically modified to serve humans is nothing new - go pick up the Uplift series by David Brin and forgive him for what Costner did to The Postman. What I liked about this whole series was hearing the story from David's view. Another reviewer mentioned Heinlein and I think that is very fitting - young adult themes that carry over into a story that holds an adults attention. I would also, obviously, point to Forester and the Hornblower books, and to Nathan Lowell and his Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series - stories of a gifted individual taking the path that is laid before them and making the best of the tragedies in life.I will agree with one of the negative reviewer's on one respect - I did not like the explanation for the assassination. I think it was necessary, but I think there could have been different reasons for it that stayed truer to the themes the story had explored. Of course, a different explanation would have left the door open for other stories to be told, and that would not have made me sad at all.