Review: Much weaker than the other entries.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2013
I have read the entire series, and while this might seem an ideal place to address the strengths and weaknesses "in total", this final book deserves it's own breakout.I found the book disapointing. Not awful. Not rotten. Not Horrid. Just disapointing. There is this overwealming sense of "God is the Machine" in the book, where things are simply happening not because they are a natural occurence, but because the writer wants them to happen this way.The poltics of the entire series has always been more fantasy than reality, and the lack of a pause to develop David outside of a War Setting is a huge weakness, one which the author could have learned from C.S. Forrester or O.S. Card even David Weber. To the Author's credit, the hero started out as a "Super Hero", so the common flaw of just giving the hero more powers is observed only via his political rise, which by the end chapter, is entirely unsatisfactory- but I think we could all see it from miles away, so there is not as much sting as one might hope from the death described in the book, just a "Well, naturally."Do not let me downward tone keep you from buying the book. It deserves a read if only to see the way how not to end a series, and the writing as always is sharp, and clean.