A review by t_shaffner
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi

2.0

While my frustrations with the previous books continued (e.g. the word fuck and sex seem to be characters of their own), I still liked the first half or so of this book. It was fun! It had good parts, cool problems, interesting strategies, etc. etc. Then it felt like the author got lazy and wrote a bunch of cheat scenes to get to an easy ending that might seem "cool", and I was just very nonplussed. What's here has all the makings of a much bigger, and potentially great series. Instead though, it just manages mediocre.