A review by aleffert
Endless Things by John Crowley

4.0

The rest of this series is wonderful, this book is merely lush. It was part of the story within the story that the conclusion had to fall flat and with the way that story reflects itself into the actual series, those flaws had to somehow propagate into the novel itself. That said, this book felt like a bit of a chore and I feel like he could have done more to mitigate. What plot there was in the first three books has basically ended by the start of this volume and most of the characters you like or care about are barely in it. At some point he actually describes the flaws of the book, (pretending to describe a different book), and so he clearly knew what he was doing.

Despite its problems, there are still some delightful bits, the prose is gorgeous and it is a fitting end to Aegypt if not exactly what I would have wanted.