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sdramsey's review against another edition
5.0
After zooming through the first two books, I dove immediately into the third. This one was slightly more difficult to follow in audio (just one main point of the plot, really, that I felt I had missed), but still I highly recommend it if you like a blend of contemporary thriller and futuristic technology.
melbsreads's review against another edition
2.0
Plot summary: In 1978, a breach was opened between this world and the future. Since then, the breach has been delivering alien technology into the world, which is kept hidden by a secret government agency called Tangent. In the present day, a missile hits the White House, killing the president. Tangent agent Travis Chase, along with his partner Paige Campbell and technology expert Bethany Stewart, has 24 hours to try and solve a mystery dating back to the opening of the breach.
Thoughts: As a disclaimer, I haven't read the previous two books in the series. If I had, perhaps I would have been more taken with this, the final volume in the trilogy. I found the alien technology quite confusing, and the jumps into the past created a large number of characters to try and keep straight. The main focus of the story throughout is Travis - Paige and Bethany had exceptionally minor roles throughout.
I will give it credit for including a big twist that I didn't see coming. But the ending delivered a major dose of "WTF", and didn't really seem to fit in particularly well with the rest of the story - almost like the author got to the climax of the story and ran out of ideas, so quickly made something up and crammed it in.
It was okay, but I didn't enjoy it enough to read the other two.
Thoughts: As a disclaimer, I haven't read the previous two books in the series. If I had, perhaps I would have been more taken with this, the final volume in the trilogy. I found the alien technology quite confusing, and the jumps into the past created a large number of characters to try and keep straight. The main focus of the story throughout is Travis - Paige and Bethany had exceptionally minor roles throughout.
I will give it credit for including a big twist that I didn't see coming. But the ending delivered a major dose of "WTF", and didn't really seem to fit in particularly well with the rest of the story - almost like the author got to the climax of the story and ran out of ideas, so quickly made something up and crammed it in.
It was okay, but I didn't enjoy it enough to read the other two.
seventhuncle's review against another edition
3.0
Quite a story, finally everything comes together and it ending.. well.. it's more open than I expected. Lee does wrap it up nicely. He also explains in short words why Travis is able to cope so well - this adds half a star for me and makes this book and therefore the whole trilogy getting 3,5 stars from me. I am glad it turned out better, than book 1 and 2 had me worrying. Do I recommend the series? Well, there are many others I'd read first.
stacys_books's review
4.0
I'm giving this four stars even though I have some problems with the fact that there's so much backstory. I supposed that's natural in a plot as complex as this one. Perhaps there will be a fourth book in this series, making it a quartet.
In THE BREACH, ex-cop and ex-con Travis Chase stumbles on the Tangent, a shadowy government outfit protecting the Breach, a wormhole which occasionally spits out pieces of what could only be alien technology, it's all so advanced. Tangent studies these Entities, as they're called, but they only learn what they do, not why. Still, the Entities make pretty nifty tools for forwarding the plot.
I loved THE BREACH, the first book in this series. It kept me up long past my bedtime. I really liked GHOST COUNTRY, just as I like DEEP SKY. And I dug that the audience learns the plot pretty much as Travis does. Patrick Lee makes some very clever moves plot-wise, and he's a no-nonsense writer who tells the damn story.
Yet there's so much backstory, and much of it—too much of it—is revealed through dialogue in this installment of the trilogy. Even at what should be very tense points (main characters are in a mine shaft with bomb-wielding agents just outside the door), there's a huge amount of dialogue filling the MCs in on info they didn't have. Kind of took away from the intensity for me.
In THE BREACH, ex-cop and ex-con Travis Chase stumbles on the Tangent, a shadowy government outfit protecting the Breach, a wormhole which occasionally spits out pieces of what could only be alien technology, it's all so advanced. Tangent studies these Entities, as they're called, but they only learn what they do, not why. Still, the Entities make pretty nifty tools for forwarding the plot.
I loved THE BREACH, the first book in this series. It kept me up long past my bedtime. I really liked GHOST COUNTRY, just as I like DEEP SKY. And I dug that the audience learns the plot pretty much as Travis does. Patrick Lee makes some very clever moves plot-wise, and he's a no-nonsense writer who tells the damn story.
Yet there's so much backstory, and much of it—too much of it—is revealed through dialogue in this installment of the trilogy. Even at what should be very tense points (main characters are in a mine shaft with bomb-wielding agents just outside the door), there's a huge amount of dialogue filling the MCs in on info they didn't have. Kind of took away from the intensity for me.
bgmncwj's review
3.0
A quick read, like the rest of the trilogy. Had some good twists and philosophical questions. After finishing this I wish the series went on.
brady2387's review against another edition
5.0
Best trilogy I've read in a long time. Awesome, awesome. Very unique.
scotto's review
4.0
In "Deep Sky," our hero Jack Bauer - excuse me, Travis Chase - and his allies in Fringe Division - excuse me, Tangent - face their most dangerous foes yet as they seek an answer to what's on the other side of The Breach, a mysterious hole into another dimension. President Harrison Ford - excuse me, Richard Garner - is [SPOILER OMITTED] and it's up to the thoroughly bland but incredibly murderous John McClane - excuse me, Travis Chase - to rescue ALL OF HUMANITY. I mean look, this series is at once both intricately plotted and lazily executed; the best ideas in the series happened in book one, the 2nd book was a total paperweight, and the saving grace of the conclusion here is that Lee totally commits to some creative insanity to wrap it all up. Timey wimey abuse of the heroes' timeline; Inception level abuse of the characters' memories; and Chase's willingness to slit absolutely anyone's throat ear to ear at any moment - it all adds up to ... well, it gets in the vicinity of adding up to something anyway, but it still gets 4 stars from me because of its commitment to Sparkle Motion. "Deep Sky" never lets up on its commitment to breathless weirdass sci-fi technothriller absurdity and for that, I gotta give props.
theaprilbee's review
5.0
This was a really good book to end the series on. I recommend it to my sci fi/fantasy friends.
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