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The Evolutionary Void
by Peter F. Hamilton
A month to the day to finish this book.
Not because I didn't enjoy it though, just because I've had rather limited reading time of late.
Each and every moment of the book was enjoyable and action packed. In the end though, this felt both a strength and a weakness. With every moment keeping the tension high, there was nowhere else to go for the climax. There was no significant peaking in tension at the end of the book, it was a matter of trouble, trouble, trouble one moment and then 'oh, whoop, there we go, done', in another.
It is for that reason I rate the book as 'I really liked it' as opposed to 'amazing'.
I get that this is the last book of the trilogy and to be fair the prior two volumes were better paced from recollection, but when you're talking about a volume this large -- some 726 odd pages -- last book or no it needs to give the reader some breathing room if the climax is to mean anything.
Still. After that was over and done, I did like the resolutions given to each of the character arcs that had been woven into the story. They gave a wonderful sense of closure to the series without quite closing all room for future speculation on what they might get up to.
The book is well worth a read, the tension is kept high, there are some twists you might not see coming -- yet still seem plausable rather than ridiculous -- and the characters are likeable.
It's not quite the perfect book, but it's still a darned good one.
Not because I didn't enjoy it though, just because I've had rather limited reading time of late.
Each and every moment of the book was enjoyable and action packed. In the end though, this felt both a strength and a weakness. With every moment keeping the tension high, there was nowhere else to go for the climax. There was no significant peaking in tension at the end of the book, it was a matter of trouble, trouble, trouble one moment and then 'oh, whoop, there we go, done', in another.
It is for that reason I rate the book as 'I really liked it' as opposed to 'amazing'.
I get that this is the last book of the trilogy and to be fair the prior two volumes were better paced from recollection, but when you're talking about a volume this large -- some 726 odd pages -- last book or no it needs to give the reader some breathing room if the climax is to mean anything.
Still. After that was over and done, I did like the resolutions given to each of the character arcs that had been woven into the story. They gave a wonderful sense of closure to the series without quite closing all room for future speculation on what they might get up to.
The book is well worth a read, the tension is kept high, there are some twists you might not see coming -- yet still seem plausable rather than ridiculous -- and the characters are likeable.
It's not quite the perfect book, but it's still a darned good one.