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mvuijlst's review against another edition
2.0
Op een rij wat moet opgelost geraken: bij de mensen, oorlog tussen Hanze en Ildiranen, tussen Hanze en Roamers, tussen Hanze en Confederatie, burgeroorlog/verzet op Aarde, tussen mensen en Klikiss, tussen mensen en Faeros, tussen mensen en Hydrogues, tussen mensen en Klikisrobots. Bij de Ildiranen: tussen Jora'h en Rusa'h, tussen Ildiranen en en Faeros, tussen Ildiranen en Hanze. Daarnaast: oorlog tussen Hydrogues en Faeros, tussen Faeros en Wentals, tussen Ventani en Wentals, tussen Klikiss en al de rest, en aaaaargh.
En een megalomane voorzitter van de Hanze met voor zover we zien maar een stuk of vijftien échte true believers, die voortdurend zonder lijfwachten rondloopt en al vier boeken aan een stuk had kunnen vermoord worden waardoor de laatste drie vier boeken niet meer nodig waren geweest.
Dit was een boek te ver. En ik had het denk ik ook al gelezen. Denk ik, zeg ik wel, want zelfs al had ik het niet gelezen, het was zó voorspelbaar dat ik het even goed niet had kunnen lezen.
Ik moet echt ophouden met series uit te willen lezen als het mij na een paar boeken tegensteekt (zie ook: Wheel of Time, ondanks Brandon Sanderson).
Euh ja, dus, ik stel mijn opinie van in het begin bij: niét lezen. Voor een trilogie had dit goed geweest, maar zeven boeken is des Guten (viel) zu viel.
En een megalomane voorzitter van de Hanze met voor zover we zien maar een stuk of vijftien échte true believers, die voortdurend zonder lijfwachten rondloopt en al vier boeken aan een stuk had kunnen vermoord worden waardoor de laatste drie vier boeken niet meer nodig waren geweest.
Dit was een boek te ver. En ik had het denk ik ook al gelezen. Denk ik, zeg ik wel, want zelfs al had ik het niet gelezen, het was zó voorspelbaar dat ik het even goed niet had kunnen lezen.
Ik moet echt ophouden met series uit te willen lezen als het mij na een paar boeken tegensteekt (zie ook: Wheel of Time, ondanks Brandon Sanderson).
Euh ja, dus, ik stel mijn opinie van in het begin bij: niét lezen. Voor een trilogie had dit goed geweest, maar zeven boeken is des Guten (viel) zu viel.
gregg's review against another edition
3.0
Overall I will give this entire series a three although there some things I didn't like. The ending was not the best but it was a satisfactory ending. Some of the characters I hated throughout the series did not survive which I liked and didn't expect them to really. There were few small surprises but nothing that blew my mind or anything.
nightwyrm's review against another edition
4.0
There were a lot of moving parts to bring to a close (some of which dragged on well past their use-by date), but he did a good job of bring them together.
aqiul's review
2.0
Well, the book ended exactly as I thought it would - terribly!
Seven books and it all comes down to a happy ending! After the plot has concluded, all the major characters get their own chapter where the author shows us what becomes of them with no time scale mentioned. The last few chapters were the most boring I have ever read at the end of any book.
I did rant about Basil Wenceslas in my book 6 review but he deserves to be mentioned again: Wow...just wow. Watching a smart, intelligent character become completely deluded over a period of 7 books was not a lot of fun because of the shallow writing. In the first couple books you only saw the good things he did and then in the rest you only saw the bad things he did. It's like Basil is a one dimensional character. And thenhe dies because he gets stabbed when he tries to take on 12 guards with his 4 guards. /facepalm
Some of the plot in this book made very little sense. It just felt like the author was herding us into a nice linear path so that everything could end well. Quite disappointed with the book and series overall.
I should have stopped at book 5.
Seven books and it all comes down to a happy ending! After the plot has concluded, all the major characters get their own chapter where the author shows us what becomes of them with no time scale mentioned. The last few chapters were the most boring I have ever read at the end of any book.
I did rant about Basil Wenceslas in my book 6 review but he deserves to be mentioned again: Wow...just wow. Watching a smart, intelligent character become completely deluded over a period of 7 books was not a lot of fun because of the shallow writing. In the first couple books you only saw the good things he did and then in the rest you only saw the bad things he did. It's like Basil is a one dimensional character. And then
Some of the plot in this book made very little sense. It just felt like the author was herding us into a nice linear path so that everything could end well. Quite disappointed with the book and series overall.
I should have stopped at book 5.
macindog's review
3.0
Finally, after seven books, its all over. Unfortunately, for me, this was the weakest in the series and the winding up of the story was somewhat predictable. I took a four year break between books five and six and now I remember why - it just got a bit tedious as more dangerous threats were added into the mix every time.
In essence what I'm saying is that it was just too long a tale. It was still a great story with interesting characters, cultures and aliens but one that could easily have been tightened up a bit.
At the end of it all Earth or the Terran Hanseatic League are still the bad guys but there's hope for humanity. Who knows, maybe a new tale or two could emerge as there could be a fair bit of mileage in the Ildiran or Klikiss stories.
In essence what I'm saying is that it was just too long a tale. It was still a great story with interesting characters, cultures and aliens but one that could easily have been tightened up a bit.
At the end of it all Earth or the Terran Hanseatic League are still the bad guys but there's hope for humanity. Who knows, maybe a new tale or two could emerge as there could be a fair bit of mileage in the Ildiran or Klikiss stories.
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