Review: OK Finale
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2013
I can see that this book would be very good for other people with different tastes. However, that's not me. :)>I don't have any issues with the technical aspects of the novel, just the actual story. It was a serious departure from the first two books and significantly darker. It just didn't mesh with the high space opera of the first two books.*****SPOILERS BELOW******Problems I had with the story.1) The character changes in both Dena and Jason were overdone, opposite of their characters (thus creating a different personality) and of little use to the story as it had been told in the first two books.2) The rapid technological advancement of the Unity in weapons while still being totally unable to understand/determine the jump drive or temporal technology of the Ancients. New technology is harder than duplicating existing technology. As has been said "Seeing something is possible is half the problem".3) Introducing a meme into Unity society was little more than a cop out on a solution, in the way it was achieved and intended.4) The deaths of both the Sergeant and Dena were useless, especially Dena's. Neither really furthered the storyline or advanced the plot.5) The book is so different from the first two that it seems the author's realized they had written themselves into a corner and couldn't finish the series in one book without taking extraordinary measures to wrap it all up.That being said, the writing style was still riveting. I just didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped. I can't recommend the series to anyone due to the disjunction between the first two-thirds of the series and the last book.