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A review by wazbar
The Adversary by Julian May
challenging
hopeful
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
This is the fourth and final volume in the Saga of the Pliocene Exile and, the absolute mad lass did it. More than 1800 total pages, a truly astonishing number of characters and plot threads woven and counterwoven, and the whole thing comes to a (I'd say mostly) satisfactory conclusion.
Like, is this series without fault? Absolutely not. Its treatment of its handful of queer characters sucks! The series seems to think eugenics is pretty cool! And yet, I'm willing to forgive it a great deal because, unlike almost every work of comparable scope, its execution actually follows through on its promises. "What if ASOIAF were good and had an ending," is an obnoxious but not unfounded way to pitch this series.
There are a handful of dropped ideas and things about the final resolution that fall a bit flat to me, but it's a fair ending. I begrudge it nothing, even if for example we spend more time with tony wayland than his interestingness justifies.
Like, is this series without fault? Absolutely not. Its treatment of its handful of queer characters sucks! The series seems to think eugenics is pretty cool! And yet, I'm willing to forgive it a great deal because, unlike almost every work of comparable scope, its execution actually follows through on its promises. "What if ASOIAF were good and had an ending," is an obnoxious but not unfounded way to pitch this series.
There are a handful of dropped ideas and things about the final resolution that fall a bit flat to me, but it's a fair ending. I begrudge it nothing, even if for example we spend more time with tony wayland than his interestingness justifies.