4.49 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot

I really liked how this wrapped up the story.

I absolutely loved this book, and this series is for me the single greatest sci fi series I’ve ever read. I love these people and the Tachi / Roci and I will miss them. These books are in my view an absolutely unique combination competent military sci fi, hard science, competent presentation of grand philosophical questions of the nature of personal identity, the nature of tyranny, the banality of evil, the nature of love, loyalty, friendship - and so much more. They are not to be missed. They are classics of the genre, grand in breadth and sweep and yet accurate to the last rivet and weld.

A proper ending.
adventurous dark hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A fitting end to one of the greatest SF series around.

Beautiful.
adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The grand finale to the nine books. 
What a journey. 

The authors did such a good job at making this feel like full-circle. Even though there are aliens, and artefacts and new galaxies; this long series has always been about the humans. The small players who make a big impact. 

The books are so bingable, fast-paced, addictive. There is dry humour, darker moments, and incredible found family that just progresses. 

<b>”You’re going to be fighting for the fate of humanity. I’m going to be worrying about algebra assignments.” “Well, maybe you’ll get lucky and we’ll win and the algebra will matter. Then twenty, thirty years down the road, something else will show up to slaughter everyone, and you can take care of that one.”
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Amazing character arcs, an AH-HAH moment even in the epilogue, and a satisfying ending. 

No five stars, but I would say this is overall a four star series.⭐️
I have not watched the TV show except for three episodes of season 1.

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