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Does anyone else feel like this was supposed to end differently, but the author chickened out or the publishers changed it? Because the first 75% was laser focused and on point, but the last 25% meandered to an unsatisfying conclusion. How hard would it have been to keep Floyd in Paris so he could properly absolve Custine and wrap up Greta’s plot, rather than sending him to Tanglewood where he basically does nothing for 100 pages except explain sound waves? Reynolds abandoned so many of his earlier plot elements in favour of a mediocre chase, and he missed a lot of opportunities to give his characters some closure. It just felt really lacking. Hoping the other book of his I bought is more on point.

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As the series grinds on (real spoiler) Duncan Idaho becomes a very central (and interesting) character.