HuckleBuck411
I was disappointed in this, the final book in the Noumenon trilogy. Science Fiction is always imaginative; however, I thought the author tried to cram too much into the story, to the point it became confusing. There were several variations of humans, several variations of aliens (some from the beginning of the universe). New religions were formed around a clone descendant of a character from the original book who aged and then reverted to a younger state. A baby that hardly aged physically had to wear a mech suit to interact with her peers. A scientist who, through an accident covered in the second book, would disappear for ever-increasing periods into a subdimension was considered an immortal, along with the two mentioned above. Trying to keep straight who was who due to the sheer number of characters was a daunting task, and using pronouns like he/them, she/they (because of gender diversity), I always find very annoying. The timeline of the story takes place over millennia, dipping in and then jumping ahead hundreds or thousands of years to pick up the story thread, hence why there was always a new crop of characters. I find it impossible to give a synopsis of this over-the-top tale, so I'll just say a lot of extraneous material could have been left out, and it probably would have been a more satisfying read.
I was disappointed in this, the final book in the Noumenon trilogy. Science Fiction is always imaginative; however, I thought the author tried to cram too much into the story, to the point it became confusing. There were several variations of humans, several variations of aliens (some from the beginning of the universe). New religions were formed around a clone descendant of a character from the original book who aged and then reverted to a younger state. A baby that hardly aged physically had to wear a mech suit to interact with her peers. A scientist who, through an accident covered in the second book, would disappear for ever-increasing periods into a subdimension was considered an immortal, along with the two mentioned above. Trying to keep straight who was who due to the sheer number of characters was a daunting task, and using pronouns like he/them, she/they (because of gender diversity), I always find very annoying. The timeline of the story takes place over millennia, dipping in and then jumping ahead hundreds or thousands of years to pick up the story thread, hence why there was always a new crop of characters. I find it impossible to give a synopsis of this over-the-top tale, so I'll just say a lot of extraneous material could have been left out, and it probably would have been a more satisfying read.