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A review by dubsington
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
3.0
The final book in this trilogy is mush like the two that came before it. With that signature Scalzi flourish of language, humour and structure the story is a breezy read and finishes of the tale of Marce, Kiva and Cardenia nicely. The pacing is similar too the first two book for good and ill. You'll be able to read this one quickly, but it ends up making it feel like you never really spent enough time in any given moment with the core characters.
The plot has a number of foreseeable beats but some interesting surprises as well. The big question gets answered, more or less and the book ,while wrapping up, does leave a couple strands that could be followed in subsequent novels.
As i have found to be the case with other Scalzi novels, there are a number of bigger ideas that you almost catch a glimpse of, but the quick pacing of the novel never really has time to delve into those questions at all. Which is fine, it's not really what the novel is setting out to do.
If you've read the first two book of the series and liked them, you're probably going to like this one.
The plot has a number of foreseeable beats but some interesting surprises as well. The big question gets answered, more or less and the book ,while wrapping up, does leave a couple strands that could be followed in subsequent novels.
As i have found to be the case with other Scalzi novels, there are a number of bigger ideas that you almost catch a glimpse of, but the quick pacing of the novel never really has time to delve into those questions at all. Which is fine, it's not really what the novel is setting out to do.
If you've read the first two book of the series and liked them, you're probably going to like this one.