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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
slow-paced
This final Hitchhiker's book is, unfortunately, mostly toothless. It skates by on some borrowed goodwill from earlier in the series, but it also abandons numerous plots, concepts, and figures that really deserved a proper send-off of their own. And the storyline that replaces them is both threadbare and heavily reliant on parallel universes as a shorthand for character development. It's Douglas Adams, so there are definitely some funny individual passages throughout, but it just doesn't feel like the author's heart was still in it at this point.
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Minor: Death, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Douglas Adams is equal among my favourite authors, he is offbeat, erudite, ridiculous, and possesses the widest and silliest imagination I have found. His brand of humour matches mine so exactly that this is one of the few books (and series) that I have read multiple times and enjoyed every single time. This series also happily accompanies the Red Dwarf books by Grant & Naylor.
Fun and entertaining like the others, but the ending is really disappointing.
lighthearted
medium-paced