Astor Reinhardt

Great concept but what a slog to get through. The writing is extremely vague and confusing. It's like stuff trails off and new things start without being explained.

I wanted to like this book because of the concept but the writing was so poor that I ended up hating this book.

When a book needs a dictionary of terms for one of your main characters, you lost me.

The idea of this book is a great one. It just didn't take off very well. One of the characters speaks in code (took me half the book to figure out aff meant affirmative.) and the other...symbols? When you waste two pages for just symbols, that's lazy. I don't care if you're a well known author or an indie author; you use symbols to pad your book, it's lazy.

So much of this book just ticked me off. I love the idea of a post apocalyptic Seattle and as I said, the idea/plot was a good one.

You had several good ideas here. Like the neighborhoods all belonging to different factions. And coffee being a big deal (realistic!). But the dialogue sucks. And I couldn't connect to any of the characters nor did I care about any of them.

This book was a big let down and I actually regret buying it.

It was fine until the ending. It ended abruptly and we don't find out what happens to the main character or his friends and family. Do they live? Do they die? Nothing. What a poor ending.

I'll keep it short. This final chapter to the series was a convoluted mess. It's always a disappointment when sci-fi authors have to rely on over complicated words and phrases in their books. None of the other books in the series had this issue, so why did they do it in this book? I had a hard time trying to get through this one.

Not one for reviews but I'll share some thoughts I had once I finished this book.

There's a lot of unanswered questions here.

Like:

- Alexander and Borphis. Does Alexander recover fully? Does Borphis go home? Do Marcia and Alexander ever have that much needed talk to answer her (and our) questions?

- Suzy and Marcia. Where do they next go? After Father? Where is he? Where is Annie (was that her name?)? What about the ring? And the Goddess? Hannah?

Given that the book was published two years after I was born...I'd say there's a good chance that the author isn't going to make a fourth. But it seemed like there should have been another book...or at least a short wrap up to all the characters and their stories.

I loved this series but it feels wrong to end it here when we still know nothing about Father, the Sisterhood, all the issues in their world and what will happen to the characters.