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sherwoodreads's review
I have said before that I love space opera to be big and braided and full of nifty ideas as well as worlds, and faster than light travel, and the roller coaster of emotions in complicated situations, preferably with a big, diverse cast.
With this conclusion to a three-volume story, Jacey Bedford gives us that.
This book continues on from the previous, which ended with the devastating space battle at the end of Crossways. The station, now in orbit above Olyanda, is being rebuilt piecemeal. Garrick, poised between crime lords and wanting to go legit, still dreams of holding off the megacorporations by allying with other worlds. And unfortunately, he's an addict, one who says, "Oh, I can quit anytime." Unfortunately, that kind of thinking is a time bomb.
He depends on Cara and Ben to aid him, butCara is trying to reinvent Sanctuary while dealing with the systematic murder of Free Company telepaths by seeking the source code in the psi-tech implants that they depend on. And Ben is having increasingly insistent nightmares about the weird entity in foldspace, while trying to talk to the dragons.
Then people who were lost half a century ago turn up. Including Kitty, who . . .
Well, let me just say that there is a rousing, absorbing climax that finishes most satisfactorily. I really, really, enjoyed this three-book story!
With this conclusion to a three-volume story, Jacey Bedford gives us that.
This book continues on from the previous, which ended with the devastating space battle at the end of Crossways. The station, now in orbit above Olyanda, is being rebuilt piecemeal. Garrick, poised between crime lords and wanting to go legit, still dreams of holding off the megacorporations by allying with other worlds. And unfortunately, he's an addict, one who says, "Oh, I can quit anytime." Unfortunately, that kind of thinking is a time bomb.
He depends on Cara and Ben to aid him, butCara is trying to reinvent Sanctuary while dealing with the systematic murder of Free Company telepaths by seeking the source code in the psi-tech implants that they depend on. And Ben is having increasingly insistent nightmares about the weird entity in foldspace, while trying to talk to the dragons.
Then people who were lost half a century ago turn up. Including Kitty, who . . .
Well, let me just say that there is a rousing, absorbing climax that finishes most satisfactorily. I really, really, enjoyed this three-book story!
infosifter's review
4.0
This was a fun sci-fi adventure. Although it is quite long, the pacing was good for maintaining a reader's interest. If you enjoy stories involving telepathy or discovering new life forms, give this series a try.
duchess's review against another edition
2.0
Maybe it's because I read this book immediately after [b:Provenance|36076403|Provenance|Ann Leckie|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1512317898s/36076403.jpg|45094649], but this third instalment of the Psi-Tech series felt very pedestrian. I didn't remember it feeling this way in the first two - I had been drawn in by the high-stakes plot and engrossing characters (despite their alliterative names) - and so I feel let down.
This book was 50% too long, for starters. Far too much exposition, weird tonal shifts, sudden jumps in the timeline, and it was not able to maintain a level of suspense throughout the plot which is kind of absurd given that this book is about finding outa blob monster in the voids of space composed of literally nothing is consuming human ships then spitting them back out to kill other humans via a malicious hivemind.
The upside is that all the remaining loose ends from the previous two books have been neatly wrapped up. This book could have been really entertaining, but it suffered from lacklustre writing and poor editing.
This book was 50% too long, for starters. Far too much exposition, weird tonal shifts, sudden jumps in the timeline, and it was not able to maintain a level of suspense throughout the plot which is kind of absurd given that this book is about finding out
The upside is that all the remaining loose ends from the previous two books have been neatly wrapped up. This book could have been really entertaining, but it suffered from lacklustre writing and poor editing.
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