Review: Good continuation of this series, but also disappointing, and too much of a cliffhanger that leaves major questions unresolved
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
I really liked the writing, the plot, and the author's character of Aida, and so I gave the prior volumes in this series a very good review.However, even though the quality of the writing was up to the high standard of past volumes and there was a fair amount of action, I have to agree with some of the other reviewers here that this volume was a disappointment in the sense that, while it moved the story a little bit forward, it left all of the major questions raised by earlier volumes unanswered; it was just a "bridge volume" that broke off rather abruptly, just leaving me hanging there.Another reviewer also brought up something that bugged him that also bugs me, and that is when an author is writing a series, and each new volume is issued several months or even years after the last.As this other reviewer complained, quite often by the time the new volume is out--and during the time since the previous volume I have probably read another dozen or two more books--I have largely forgotten the details of past volumes--the very details that made each one of those past volumes seem so good at the time I read them--and I have generally forgotten certain parts of the overall plot as well and, therefore, the latest volume does not have the impact that it could have had if all the volumes were issued within a short time of each other and, in essence, could be read as one long story.Realistically speaking, unless the newest volume is an absolutely dynamite book, I am not going back, digging up, and reading all of its preceding volumes in sequence in order to get the fullest, the most complete sense of what the entire story is about.