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Ad Eternum
by Elizabeth Bear
Jumping back to the future, as it were, we find Sebastian returning to New Amsterdam for the first time since the events of the first book - and after the passing of Lady Irene.
He returns to a place where it is no longer just to exist as a wampyr, but which is not entirely accepting of them, either, and a lot of the tension in the story hinges on that.
He also meets a new group of potential friends - all sorcerers and one perhaps immortal - but an encounter with an old friend (from 'Seven for a Secret'), and his recent past, leaves Sebastian uncertain of his future - or if he even wants one...
My biggest issue with this story is that it's another one that ends too quickly, leaving you with a sense of incompleteness... I do hope that there's more eventually. (According to a timeline at the beginning of [b:Garrett Investigates|16158784|Garrett Investigates (New Amsterdam, #5)|Elizabeth Bear|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1353323651s/16158784.jpg|21999306], this is the latest, chronologically, of the stories.)
But I would like to see more of Sebastian and Ruth together, and also more of Damian. And I wonder what it would be like for Sebastian to actually become...
He returns to a place where it is no longer just to exist as a wampyr, but which is not entirely accepting of them, either, and a lot of the tension in the story hinges on that.
He also meets a new group of potential friends - all sorcerers and one perhaps immortal - but an encounter with an old friend (from 'Seven for a Secret'), and his recent past, leaves Sebastian uncertain of his future - or if he even wants one...
My biggest issue with this story is that it's another one that ends too quickly, leaving you with a sense of incompleteness... I do hope that there's more eventually. (According to a timeline at the beginning of [b:Garrett Investigates|16158784|Garrett Investigates (New Amsterdam, #5)|Elizabeth Bear|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1353323651s/16158784.jpg|21999306], this is the latest, chronologically, of the stories.)
But I would like to see more of Sebastian and Ruth together, and also more of Damian. And I wonder what it would be like for Sebastian to actually become