A review by frakalot
Purgatory's Key by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore
5.0
A good conclusion to a pretty cool series. I think the concept for this was excellent but I guess it's difficult imagining new universes and that we'll all come up with different ideas on how to make that interesting. Perhaps this isn't the direction I was hoping for but the beauty of the myriad universes is that there's room for every story and this is a great story.
I was initially underwhelmed with the plot for Purgatory's Key but I had high expectations by the time I started and even though they weren't met the story picked up for me after about half way. In order to flesh this story out a lot of stuff is going on in both universes but I really think the concept was rich enough to have focused more in the new universe and I suppose that is what I was hoping for.
There was a massive portion of this that felt like deja vu for me but I'm sure I hadn't read it previously. It was a lot of the stuff with Sarek. Actually I noticed early in this book that it was rather a convenient writing decision to have the Organian Peace Talks coincide with these events in order to have a top diplomat whisked away and right into a position where he could influence events with the two new races, but really that's not how Sarek was used in this story at all.
I really enjoyed the series and thought that Petkoff did an outstanding job.
I was initially underwhelmed with the plot for Purgatory's Key but I had high expectations by the time I started and even though they weren't met the story picked up for me after about half way. In order to flesh this story out a lot of stuff is going on in both universes but I really think the concept was rich enough to have focused more in the new universe and I suppose that is what I was hoping for.
There was a massive portion of this that felt like deja vu for me but I'm sure I hadn't read it previously. It was a lot of the stuff with Sarek. Actually I noticed early in this book that it was rather a convenient writing decision to have the Organian Peace Talks coincide with these events in order to have a top diplomat whisked away and right into a position where he could influence events with the two new races, but really that's not how Sarek was used in this story at all.
I really enjoyed the series and thought that Petkoff did an outstanding job.