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colossal's review
4.0
A solid conclusion to a workmanlike series that never really gets past its central (very clever) premise. A solid SF adventure series.
So this series started with hard SF set in the 22nd century era of solar system exploration, but then quickly takes a left turn into an alternate world of the Napoleonic Wars but where alchemy works and sailing ships can sail in the space between worlds. And the worlds of this solar system are inhabited by all means of aliens. And then it proceeds to mash them together.
This book follows on from the victory of the martian warlord's forces to restore him to our universe and sees Lt.Cmdr. Jain in hot pursuit of her possessed lover's ship on it way back from Saturn to Earth. Meanwhile a further 10 years have passed in the alchemical universe and Admiral Weatherby now heads up the English Navy, but the French are winning the war with their undead soldiers.
If the above paragraph sounds like the sort of batshittery that you might like then this series is definitely for you.
So this series started with hard SF set in the 22nd century era of solar system exploration, but then quickly takes a left turn into an alternate world of the Napoleonic Wars but where alchemy works and sailing ships can sail in the space between worlds. And the worlds of this solar system are inhabited by all means of aliens. And then it proceeds to mash them together.
This book follows on from the victory of the martian warlord's forces to restore him to our universe and sees Lt.Cmdr. Jain in hot pursuit of her possessed lover's ship on it way back from Saturn to Earth. Meanwhile a further 10 years have passed in the alchemical universe and Admiral Weatherby now heads up the English Navy, but the French are winning the war with their undead soldiers.
If the above paragraph sounds like the sort of batshittery that you might like then this series is definitely for you.
sardonic_writer's review
3.0
This series really grew on me as it went along; the sum is greater than the parts. This was a fitting conclusion to an enjoyable trilogy.
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