Review: The never ending story??
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
The first 3 books in this never ending series are basically one continuing book broken up in suitable parts. Every book, including the third, ends in mid air and you are kept waiting for the next book to get to some kind of ending that never comes. I suspect the series might go on forever.And you definitely cannot read book 2 or 3 as stand-alones. You will have no idea of what is going on if you do not read the books in order.This said, after reading the first book which I got for free, I felt compelled to buy the second and then the third book to see what happens. This is rare for me, so I really got involved in the story. Well done.This is somewhere between a science fiction techno-thriller, political philosophical manifesto, action adventure and spy story. Hackers and libertarian techno-cults are battling the current political establishment of politicians bought by the 1%'ers. Koch Brothers come to mind.I find the authors vision of the near future fascinating as well as his belief in self governing groups of like-minded individuals held together by the internet across the borders of geographical nation states. Sounds great, but are we disciplined enough to pull that off? Seeing how large parts of the population can be manipulated into voting against their own self interest does not bode well for this scenario.I recommend this series for anybody who like a good techno-thriller and is interested in alternative philosophical visions of the future. Enjoy!I only gave the series 4 stars as I generally do not like a series where each book does not have  some kind of ending. The way the books are written this would be difficult to do, so I will just have to live with it.