Review: All good (or in this case Excellent) things must come to an end - but I did not want it to
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
The final chapter in this awesome series gets a page turning edge-of-your-seat satisfying conclusion.Years have passed and little Suzy, now 14, has become the full fledged sex slave of Doc Benjamin, the leader of the gang who kidnapped her.  However, she is also working behind the scenes to make life better for the women in the camp, never giving up her dream of escaping and finding her grandfather’s camp.Suzy has twins, a girl she names Lorna, after her barely remembered grandmother, and a boy she names Seth after a barely remembered man that travelled with her grandmother.  Suzy kills Doc Benjamin after he threatens to rape her infant daughter and with the help of a minion of the Womb, manages to get appointed leader of the tribe and improve conditions for everyone, particularly the women.  However, there are many men in the camp who resent their loss of status and on demand sex, and plot to overthrow her.Lorna is primed for leadership and it pisses Seth off to no end that she is chosen as the leader after Suzy’s death rather than him.  Seth has a major hang-up about his disability; one of his hands is fused into a claw.  Lorna had the same birth defect, but was taken by the Womb and healed.  Seth takes some men on an expedition to an old armory to try to secure weapons to take back control of the tribe, but the only weapon they find is a harpoon gun.  But this is enough to forever alter things.Lorna and her inner circle travel to the Hive and are welcomed with joy and astonishment by Clyde, her great grandfather.  She and the rest of her group are amazed by the golden Elders and the aliens, and by the longevity and health of the humans in the Hive.The humans of the Hive, are not well acclimated to all the new alien wildlife and some of the new creatures are extremely dangerous.  One in particular, a "flamer" plays a major part in the story, killing a main character and allowing another to partially redeem the human race.  The revelation of "The One" was a big surprise to me that I greatly enjoyed.However, humanity’s brutal nature is again demonstrated and comes to the forefront by some particularly heinous actions of Seth.I do have a few things that troubled me about this book in the series, the biggest in the last sentence!  Daisy bemoans the loss of her human and alien books but is comforted by being given a Bible!  This makes no sense at all; as the series mythology is that humans were created by the Oohalhans and that the Womb is God.  Before traveling to Oohala, Daisy actually says, “The Womb is my God and I am its servant.  It is my destiny to bring its message to the cosmos.”  How does a human bible offer any comfort after living with this knowledge for 100 years?I was also a little troubled that Seth turned out to be nearly as much of a psycho as his namesake.  Does the author believe that names define us and that it in turn creates our destiny?  Or is it his disability that makes him evil?  Perhaps it is the environment he was raised in?  I suppose his purpose is to illustrate that men are beyond redemption.SPOILER ALERT: Finally, I don’t get why Scotty could not be resuscitated.  Echo did this same for Baby, Netty and Wil after their violent murders.  Why could she not do the same for the “immortal elder” Scotty?Aside from these relatively minor quibbles, this series was masterful and I’ve told all of my friends to immediately begin the series as they will not be able to rest until finished.The series ended at an appropriate point, but I would love to learn about the further adventures of the surviving humans.  Do they join a Womb diplomatic corps?  Are they given their own planet to repopulate?  I really want to know!  How about it Ms. Accinni