Review: Easily the weakest of the four.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2014
Not sure what happened, but this latest installment in an otherwise excellent series just fell apart. It was obvious in the first few pages that the author had opted for a different approach to writing this book as the action jumped around so much you'll get motion sickness before you can really get your bearings and try to find out where this story is picking up from the last one. This is an OK device to use sparingly in order to convey frantic action or impart a sense of urgency, but it was used throughout the entire length of the book.There is also the huge problem with the story itself. It doesn't really fit in with where we were left at by the end of book 3. We get a strong hint of who is controlling the Drasin and maybe even why... and then they aren't even mentioned in this book. The Priminae are given a compulsory paragraph or two that gets lost in the many cut-aways to random minor characters and scenes that had nothing to do with the main story arc are were just more distracting than useful. Hopefully book 5 gets this series back on track and ties all the many, many loose ends up the author has created.