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A review by poisonenvy
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
3.0
I... Did not love this. Perhaps I might have had I not binged the entire series, or if I hadn't just read So Long and Thanks for All the Fish right before but... Well, other than a brief halfsecond sentence where Arthur reflects on how Fenchurch, his soulmate and true love from the previous book disappeared, which he then never thinks of again and never tries to find her, this book completely ignores the existence of the previous book.
In the last book, we see the return of the Earth (thanks, dolphins). In this book, the earth just continues to have been demolished years earlier with no mention of its return.
It's muddled and disjointed and somehow brings attention to all the dropped threads in the previous books.
As this is the last H2G2 book written by Douglas Adams, I suppose that they can be considered the ending, no matter how sudden, which is improved a little by the vague foreshadowing of Bartledanian literature.
Overall, I did not especially like the fifth part of the series, though I feel like, on its own it was just fine. Maybe it was just the bingeread.
In the last book, we see the return of the Earth (thanks, dolphins). In this book, the earth just continues to have been demolished years earlier with no mention of its return.
It's muddled and disjointed and somehow brings attention to all the dropped threads in the previous books.
As this is the last H2G2 book written by Douglas Adams, I suppose that they can be considered the ending, no matter how sudden, which is improved a little by the vague foreshadowing of Bartledanian literature.
Overall, I did not especially like the fifth part of the series, though I feel like, on its own it was just fine. Maybe it was just the bingeread.