/lit/ - Literature

Finishing this book was like reading an /sffg/ thread. Sheer disappointment.

I started the Northworld trilogy after finishing pic related. It's about a guy who is sent to a hidden planet which had three teams sent and subsequently went missing. I'm not very far, a few chapters in. The summary paints MC as a badass so I want to see what happens. He's gotten to the planet area thing and was sent to a pocket dimension. Somehow, the 'antagonists' who run Northworld have access to something called the Matrix which lets them do whatever they want, the inevitable magickal sci-fi mcguffin. We'll see what happens.
The only mention of Northworld on /lit/ was once a few years back in passing.

So I finished the quadrology I've been posting about.
>Book 1 >= Book 2 > Book 3 >>>>>> Book 4
I hate to say it but man was the last book a total letdown, a complete disappointment. I saw a review that stated publisher issues, with cutting content and book length which would explain it. The author also apparently stated that he might write another book in the series but considering Book 4 came out in 2006, and it hasn't happened yet, my hopes are nonexistent.
A good solid 60% of the book is straight up hard sci-fi astronaut training. The book primarily hyperfocuses upon Herzer, one of the main protags, who went from being a flawed person in book 1 searching for a purpose in life to becoming a kind of... almost perfect stereotypical romance novel lead slash plot device, especially with so much detail given toward his funky relationship with Megan and him living in a shared apartment with her plus the other harem girls rescued with her. Book 4 barely shows many of the other prominent cast members, even the bad guys therefore you get zero closure with their stories since 1) the war is still ongoing at the end of this book and 2) several characters who show up often in previous books are reduced to absence or a handful of lines.
It felt like a damn side story and I'm left with no answers, no closure, and a sense of longing that I can never recover.
Any other great series that you devoured, only to shit the bed at the very end? Preferably lesser known titles, not stuff like Dark Tower that has been discussed to death.

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Finishing the quadrology.