I was hoping for a bit more from this last book in this very enjoyable series. It was still very enjoyable, fast flowing, full of action and everything the first three books were, that’s not the problem. The problem is that throughout the previous books it’s felt like we’ve been thrown a trail of breadcrumbs concerning lots of things, and i started reading this book thinking that that trail would have lead to somewhere. Sadly, someone seems to have run out of breadcrumbs.
Previously we were told that the Variant came from a hole that was drilled into the ground, which sounded like someone was covering something up. Like a hole in the ground would have enough gas to destroy a whole planet plus one more when it leaked through a worm hole. It didn’t seem plausible for all this gas that has flooded two whole atmospheres to come from a hole drilled into the ground. But that’s all that’s said about it in the whole series — nothing more. No further explanation is given.
I was also hoping to have explained to me why the people of Everlasting can’t breathe Variant but the rest of the people on the planet can.
Then there’s Garden. Who seem to have been around quite some time before the humans arrived, yet their sole purpose seems to have been to stop Gel from his master plan to invade Earth with genetically modified people from Everlasting — genetically modified with Earth’s help. So no real explanation as to what has been going on in Everlasting before the humans arrived to have caused the insurrection was given.
And there’s other little picky things that just made this feel like a quickly-wrap-the-series-up-and-move-on-and-not-get-too-deep-about-anything kind of book.
But, as i said at the beginning, it’s still an enjoyable read, but i’m just left with the feeling that it could have been so much more.
All in all, a good series, good writing, great characters, fast flowing pace throughout, just slightly lacking at the end.
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